Why do people go to google and type in...

[PersianKitty]

www.persiankitty.com in the search box? or www.cnn.com or anything for that matter..

I mean hell.. they already have the url?? I just never have figured it out.

3% of my keyword search hits are for some variation of my domain with the .com included in the search.

[Danielle]

Lot's of people don't know what the URL bar is for and use the default search engine they have set as their URL bar.

Strange but true.

Hugs,
Danielle

[WiredGuy]

They're not, those are people who are typing the domain name into the search bar instead of the url bar in their browsers.
WG

[Danielle]

Now I must admit I am guilty of the following.

If I am not 100% sure of a sites URL I'll go to a search engine and type in what I think is the sites URL and then look at the results to find it.

Hugs,
Danielle

[Thurbs]

well .. lets assume that you use firefox.

default home page is google. load the browser. first input field with focus is not the URL bar, but the search field of Google.

you start typing and press enter. avg surfer see's what they are typing, rather just press enter and click then move mouse, type again etc. just a matter of defaults and laziness I think.

[Danielle]

Now this happens also. You have your homepage set to Google. You fire up your browser and start to type in the URL you want to go to.

The search engine then grabs the cursor focus and you actually type in the URL in the search engine instead of the browser bar.

You then click on the site link in the search engine results.

Hugs,
Danielle

[Danielle]

LOL! What Thurbs said!

Hugs,
Danielle

[PersianKitty]

Not complaining..however they want to get to me.. they can....

it's happened since 1995 when my site first hit Yahoo.. people would go to yahoo and type in the full domain name.. some of it's even return traffic.

[Danielle]

PK! How is the Koi pond???

Hugs,
Danielle

[Agent 488]

typing shit into the address bar is old school.

[PersianKitty]

Originally Posted by Danielle

PK! How is the Koi pond???

Hugs,
Danielle

ahhh.. Koi pond is now trout pond.. After babying some of those koi for 6 years through eagles, great blue heron, raccoons and such (netting the pond kept them at bay).. a smart little otter found it's way up the 2 blocks from the Puget Sound by following his nose to the runoff from the overflow and massacred several of them without so much as touching the netting. We pulled all that were left and it sat with no fish for a season. in 2007 my house was on the local symphony garden tour and my landscaper begged me to put something back in there. We got 50 young trout from a local place and tossed them in .. they eat like piranha..toss food in and the surface of the water just bubbles. Since the trout are like 50cents each we keep it somewhat stocked. They seem to be smarter and faster than the koi.. without the net there were still half of them there the first winter. I've got pictures on a camera somewhere of two eagles in a tree just a couple of weeks ago.

[Danielle]

Originally Posted by PersianKitty

ahhh.. Koi pond is now trout pond.. After babying some of those koi for 6 years through eagles, great blue heron, raccoons and such (netting the pond kept them at bay).. a smart little otter found it's way up the 2 blocks from the Puget Sound by following his nose to the runoff from the overflow and massacred several of them without so much as touching the netting. We pulled all that were left and it sat with no fish for a season. in 2007 my house was on the local symphony garden tour and my landscaper begged me to put something back in there. We got 50 young trout from a local place and tossed them in .. they eat like piranha..toss food in and the surface of the water just bubbles. Since the trout are like 50cents each we keep it somewhat stocked. They seem to be smarter and faster than the koi.. without the net there were still half of them there the first winter. I've got pictures on a camera somewhere of two eagles in a tree just a couple of weeks ago.

WOW! I hate to see the pretty Koi go. We have lake trout but have never tried to feed them. They just have fun with the bass and crapie (sp) in our 4 ponds and 1 lake.

Rob has been working on digging a Koi pond but he started that several years ago so I don't know if he will ever finish it. It's currently a big brown spot that can be seen by the most recent satellite photos.

Hugs,
Danielle

[PersianKitty]

Originally Posted by Danielle

WOW! I hate to see the pretty Koi go. We have lake trout but have never tried to feed them. They just have fun with the bass and crapie (sp) in our 4 ponds and 1 lake.

Rob has been working on digging a Koi pond but he started that several years ago so I don't know if he will ever finish it. It's currently a big brown spot that can be seen by the most recent satellite photos.

Hugs,
Danielle

I loved the koi.. several of them had been in the pond since it was put in the spring of 2000.

the trout will each about anything. I buy gamefish chow from a local feed store, but they also get table scraps. Mine is on the satellite photos too... funny seeing it all from the air.

[donborno]

In addition to what Thurbs said: I asked a friend of mine about this who keeps surfing to our own site this way, and he said that typing something in the middle of the screen easier for him something than looking up to the address bar (physical movement --> bad) and typing it there. People are lazy.

[milambur]

Because if you type it in the url bar it will show up among the recently visited sites in the url bar list. People don't want porn sites in that list and they don't want to clear the history so that their wife/husband/father/mother know they have been surfing porn.

[Socks]

in firefox I use the top right google search box as much as I use the URL bar at least. So if I end up going there first from muscle movement, I just type where I wanted to go "cnn" for example and click the link. Sometimes I even catching myself writing .com in up there too. Just you go fast and things happen ;)

Haste makes waste!

[munki]

It still gets to me also... not only my mom (who I could forgive for not being computer savvy)... but my lil bro and sis still type into whatever search box appears on screen first to check out whichever site name I'm working on most recently to check them out... I've pointed out the follly of their ways to only be answered back with... we are just not as techy as you, munki fucker... I get offended, then just realise... there is still plently of market left to penetrate and educate.

[seeandsee]

Originally Posted by PersianKitty

www.persiankitty.com in the search box? or www.cnn.com or anything for that matter..

I mean hell.. they already have the url?? I just never have figured it out.

3% of my keyword search hits are for some variation of my domain with the .com included in the search.

they are internet failers

[beta-tester]

I never understood this as well. Almost all my friends type sites addresses in google search bar, for what reason I really don't know.... Maybe it's easier for them to click on the result, I don't get it...

[Qbert]

Originally Posted by milambur

Because if you type it in the url bar it will show up among the recently visited sites in the url bar list. People don't want porn sites in that list and they don't want to clear the history so that their wife/husband/father/mother know they have been surfing porn.

There ya go! People aren't all that lazy or stupid, they're just hiding their tracks.

[slavdogg]

yes PK is right there is a large % of users that type URLs into search engines and most of those that do are repeat surfers. This goes back to pre google days as well. So nothing new here.

For example, the #s are huge for the following searches
From yahoo searching for google.com or hotmail.com or msn.com ebay.com and so on
From Google searches for yahoo.com, hotmail.com and so on... you get the picture.
It doesnt really matter what search engine, you get a ton of searches for any major site URL





However whats new nowdays is that browsers such as firefox and google toolbar make it easier to click and search from the search box and harder to click and type in the address bar. In doing so they're training millions of users to use the search box for everything and less and less of the address bar.

[escorpio]

Originally Posted by milambur

Because if you type it in the url bar it will show up among the recently visited sites in the url bar list. People don't want porn sites in that list and they don't want to clear the history so that their wife/husband/father/mother know they have been surfing porn.

We have a winner, folks!

[Manowar]

Originally Posted by budsbabes

typing shit into the address bar is old school.

its making google the middle man for the internet

[pornguy]

Originally Posted by Thurbs

well .. lets assume that you use firefox.

default home page is google. load the browser. first input field with focus is not the URL bar, but the search field of Google.

you start typing and press enter. avg surfer see's what they are typing, rather just press enter and click then move mouse, type again etc. just a matter of defaults and laziness I think.

And FF is making a KILLING off those search and clicks from google.

[Sosa]

A real estate broker that I do some tech work for does that for every address. It's just what he is accustomed to I guess.

[cherrylula]

Originally Posted by PersianKitty

www.persiankitty.com in the search box? or www.cnn.com or anything for that matter..

I mean hell.. they already have the url?? I just never have figured it out.

3% of my keyword search hits are for some variation of my domain with the .com included in the search.

Because if they type it in wrong, it usually goes to a malicious url pop up city, the wrong site. I asked a friend about this, and have seen so many do that. That is what I was told and figured out. Its pretty easy to type something in wrong, I do it myself.

search engines will bring up the correct url, even if they spell it wrong in the google box.

and my answer is the correct answer.

[fris]

i do that if im too lazy to put in the url

[Zorgman]

I do this but it's normally when im searching for websites that have that domain linked on it.

[Martin]

This might have been posted already, but I do this. If I'm a on page I don't want to leave I just type the url I want to go too in the google tool bar window and hit search. It opens the site in a new window.

[PersianKitty]

Originally Posted by milambur

Because if you type it in the url bar it will show up among the recently visited sites in the url bar list. People don't want porn sites in that list and they don't want to clear the history so that their wife/husband/father/mother know they have been surfing porn.

Ya know.. until I checked I didn't realize that the google searches didn't show up in the url bar history if they were done from the search bar.

I'd be willing to be the the majority of day to day surfers don't know that either.

[Elli]

Originally Posted by PersianKitty

Ya know.. until I checked I didn't realize that the google searches didn't show up in the url bar history if they were done from the search bar.

I'd be willing to be the the majority of day to day surfers don't know that either.

I had no idea, either!

My boyfriend does the url type-in into the search, too. He'll actually go to Google.com to type in a url instead of Ctrl-L and typing it in there. It drives me crazy (wasted keystrokes and all that jazz) but it's just a habit, I guess. Weirdness.

[Manowar]

Originally Posted by pornguy

And FF is making a KILLING off those search and clicks from google.

i read they got 50 mill a year flat

[The Seduction of Art]

This is like a Howard Stern bit where they had Gary the Retard call up the operator and ask for the number for 1-800-FLOWERS.

[PersianKitty]

Originally Posted by The Seduction of Art

This is like a Howard Stern bit where they had Gary the Retard call up the operator and ask for the number for 1-800-FLOWERS.

hmm... wonder how many people get to google by going to the searchbar and typing www.google.com

[Scott McD]

Originally Posted by milambur

Because if you type it in the url bar it will show up among the recently visited sites in the url bar list. People don't want porn sites in that list and they don't want to clear the history so that their wife/husband/father/mother know they have been surfing porn.

Correct answer!

[Tom_PM]

I think the only times I've ever done it was because a page loaded too slow and stole focus to it's search box after I'd already started typing in the address bar. I really hate that, but I guess I'm faster than my computer. Yeah thats the ticket.

[Semi-Retired-Dave]

You mean there is another way of doing it.

I just get used to typing in my google toolbar, and forget to type in to the url bar

[slavdogg]

Originally Posted by PersianKitty

hmm... wonder how many people get to google by going to the searchbar and typing www.google.com

You know thats another one that would mystify everyone.
Based on past data i would guesstimate about 10m searches a month are for google.com ON the actual google.com

One of the top searches on yahoo.com is for yahoo.com, or www.yahoo.com, or yahoo mail and such. Too bad some of this data is not public anymore to show everyone what i mean. But its real.

[Ayla_SquareTurtle]

Some people literally do not know how to use the address bar. My parents have been using the net for over 10 years yet can barely check their own email without help. If they are on, say, ebay.com and you tell them to go to their electric company website, here's what they do: Close the browser completely. Re-open the browser so that the homepage (google) comes up. Type txu.com into google. Click the link for txu.com.

I've shown both of them how to just type txu.com into the addy bar but it's like everything on the top 2 inches of the screen becomes invisible to them when I'm not standing there pointing at it.

[slavdogg]

here is some data of # of users typing in yahoo properties AT yahoo.com per month
YAHOO.COM 5083207
YAHOOMAIL.COM 578960
GEOCITIES.COM 92526
YAHOOLIGANS.COM 66138
YAHOOGAMES.COM 55999
YAHOOMUSIC.COM 52944

so 5m users a month land at yahoo.com and search for yahoo.com,
how crazy is that ?

here is some more data from yahoo, #s per month
HOTMAIL.COM 4509177
GOOGLE.COM 6727000
EBAY.COM 2782769

the list goes on

[Bruno]

Originally Posted by milambur

Because if you type it in the url bar it will show up among the recently visited sites in the url bar list. People don't want porn sites in that list and they don't want to clear the history so that their wife/husband/father/mother know they have been surfing porn.

Bingo! =)

[strobi]

Originally Posted by Qbert

There ya go! People aren't all that lazy or stupid, they're just hiding their tracks.

That's it! People do this all the time (at work etc).

[fusionx]

I have a buddy that always loads google, then types in "yahoo.com", in Google's search box, then clicks Yahoo.com from the results, then goes to his mail account.

I showed him mail.yahoo.com and he just shrugs..

[D Ghost]

simple... "people are stupid."

[alan-l]

Originally Posted by milambur

Because if you type it in the url bar it will show up among the recently visited sites in the url bar list. People don't want porn sites in that list and they don't want to clear the history so that their wife/husband/father/mother know they have been surfing porn.

that's reasonable for porn sites, but I doubt any wife will get too crazy if you type www.yahoo.com or cnn.com