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This still makes no sense to me.
A bunch of people append “site:reddit.com” or just “reddit” to searches to avoid SEO bullshit, which might cause false positives in the trends graph.
It’s this. I’ll do search terms and append “reddit” or “youtube” if the current list doesn’t get me what I need. I’ll do “site:” if it’s really fucking stubborn.
Yeah, that’s what I suspect is happening here
These are the same people who double click on links.
And triple click to open a browser.
And then they click the top link for the ad too.
Isn’t the company who posted the ad charged every time their ad is clicked? Sometimes I click them just to make the company pay for me clicking the ad. Lol yes I can be petty.
Check how many people googles google
I do that when I want to get to Google lens, it’s the easiest way since lens.google.com takes you to a bullshit marketing page 🤷
I do that when internet is kinda funky and I want to check Google, because that’s my go to site to see if shit still works. Whatever happens I kinda trust Google the most to be up. So I just search for google in my phone browser which defaults to google.
I do this when I don’t remember if it’s .com .net or whatever
Same, also if there’s any question if the URL might be something different than the company name, like containing a short form of a word, initialized, or a localization.
Though I think that’s different than what the posted graph states. I might sometimes get mixed up looking for a local company and not knowing if it’s .com or .ca. I’m pretty confident in getting the right URL for common sites like Facebook and Lemmy.
Those graphs are scaled so the largest result is always at 100 - so you can’t really tell how many people are doing this sort of thing from this graph. It could be dozens or millions. Having your search country set to only South Africa also seems pretty non-representative.
Sometimes chrome doesn’t autocomplete the url I’ve started typing to it takes me to search results, not the website.
Ctrl-enter is your friend! Assuming you’re visiting a .com TLD.
bookmark keywords are your friend regardless of TLD
This happens on firefox with me. It doesn’t autocomplete, then I have to tab a couple of search suggestions to get to the website I want.
Sometimes I type the full url out in Firefox and it still searches
Yeah it does that when what you typed contains certain characters, such as the space.
Yup, this is me. Its faster to type “fa”, press enter, and click the Google link to Facebook than type everything.com.
Google would rather it look like THEY took you there, so most actions are going to give results instead of the actual site.
Yeah my android phone the URL and search box is combined so somtimes it think I am searching other times it goes straight to to site.
In college late 90s I knew one person who would navigate to Yahoo and search for Google.
You just unlocked a memory for me!
In the early 2000s I knew someone at my university who would type “google image search” into Google.
I do, it’s often more efficient for me, I do have my SearXNG set as systemwide shortcut.
I do it all the time because the address bar and the search bar are the same bar, on mobile at least. Try it. You open a new tab and get a page with a prompt to type the search term or web address. If you type in the full url with no typos you will be redirected to the correct website. If you do not type the full url you’re getting search results. I do not do this intentionally, I’m just lazy and dumb and it gives you that drop down that looks like it’s saying “oh look here is a link to like Walmart or whatever” so you click on it but it’s search results. This was a very intentional design choice on Google’s part.
Came to say this also. I don’t know why this isn’t obvious.
I was anti using google instead of URLs for a long time. But once browser makers decided to start catering to people who do that by combining the address and search bar…well it happens by accident so often that I’m now one of those people.
I use some sort of browse by name function. I never complete a url, I just type the name and hit enter. It bypasses the search results page and goes to the site direct. So I’m pretty sure I’m contributing to the data but I’m definitely not using it like most.
I’m definitely one of these. I come from the era when misspelling a major websites name meant you landed on a virus infested page that could do all sorts of fun things to your computer.
It works better than the reddit search feature
I do this. It’s 100% beacuse I am lazy and didn’t want to spend a large amount of energy hitting the second key.
Have people never heard of bookmarks?
Whats?
Because I don’t clutter my neatly organised folders for things I use once in a while. And if auto complete doesn’t finish, googling and selecting the first non ad site is a safe bet when u don’t know the full address.
