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Re:Is it time to stop trusting Google search? by Gatsky on Saturday November 11, 2017 @08:10AM (#15676195)
Your commemt doesn't make much sense to me. If a random person is searching for github, the top result probably should be from wikipedia. Someone actually using github on the other hand, would just type the address.
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Re:Is it time to stop trusting Google search? by falcolas on Saturday November 11, 2017 @09:46AM (#15676549)
If we expand that, however, to non-technical users; no, they don't always just type the address. They type "github" into the address bar, and click on the search result for the actual site.

This behavior completely derailed my mom when her search bar was hijaacked by some just-barely-not-malware addon installed in the browser. Suddenly, she couldn't reach any of her sites.

Frustrating as hell, but at this point there's nothing I can do to change her behavior.

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Re:Is it time to stop trusting Google search? by monktastic1 on Saturday November 11, 2017 @11:10AM (#15676852)
Isn't a non-technical person more likely to want to know what GitHub is than to go there?
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Re:Is it time to stop trusting Google search? by bigbugbag on Monday November 13, 2017 @03:31PM (#15689934)
You can remove the search bar altogether. In most modern browsers the address bar works as a search bar too.
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