[washadjeffmad]

I suppose that could also be an indication that they haven't typed in a URL in a very long time.

A shocking (to me) number of people I work with don't know the URLs of websites they visit every day or that they can go directly to a site by typing in the address in "the search bar". And I mean people who use their computers for a living, not the "smartphone generation" or strangers to the web.

[inversetelecine]

Indeed.

Me: Hey checkout <website>.com

Them: type <website> without .com in address bar, click on search results link that may or may not be correct.

[scarmig]

That's not a terrible approach for some things. If I get a call from my bank telling me to login to my-bank.us or something to deal with a pressing issue, it may well be a phishing attempt, and it's generally a safer approach to google my bank and get to the login page that way instead of using the domain a caller tells you to.