The URL Is Dead, Long Live Search(readwriteweb.com)
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The URL Is Dead, Long Live Search
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Not surprising; I'm guilty of this, too. It's mostly because I can no longer figure out what the long white boxes at the top of my web browser do.
For example, with FF3b5, if I type "google" in the URL box, it shows me google.com search results for the string "google". But if I type in "amazon", it goes straight to <http://www.amazon.com>. What's the pattern? I have no idea.
(Reads the docs...) Apparently the URL bar first goes to a "keyword search service" (default, google), which will automatically redirect, or show search results. If you disable this, it does "domain guessing" (adding ".com", etc.).
Geez, I'm a web developer, and I had to read the docs to find out what the URL box does these days. I feel old.
For example, with FF3b5, if I type "google" in the URL box, it shows me google.com search results for the string "google". But if I type in "amazon", it goes straight to <http://www.amazon.com>. What's the pattern? I have no idea.
(Reads the docs...) Apparently the URL bar first goes to a "keyword search service" (default, google), which will automatically redirect, or show search results. If you disable this, it does "domain guessing" (adding ".com", etc.).
Geez, I'm a web developer, and I had to read the docs to find out what the URL box does these days. I feel old.
There are two text boxes at the top of my screen--URL and Google. They function almost interchangeably. If I type a search phrase into the URL, it redirects to google. If I type a URL into the google box I am one click from the site I want to be at. I guess I'm just sloppy, but I use one for the other all the time.
It almost seems as though the two could be combined with some clever rules.
It almost seems as though the two could be combined with some clever rules.
I think he meant domain names are dead. URIs are still very much alive and well.
Using a search also helps to avoid potential typo domain versions of a website.
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I've definitely seen people get to google by searching for "google" on yahoo as well.