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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:30PM (#20688101)
If I want exchange rates I type xe.com in the address bar
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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by yeezul on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:39PM (#20688209)
This example proves his point exactly.

I'd rather just type CAD to USD.. or BTC to USD, or any other combination in my address bar than type xe.com, load a bunch of libraries, including Facebook connect. Ghostly reports 6 trackers blocked.

Furthermore, it took 3.45 seconds to load xe.com in Incognito, while google only took 1.1

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by padobson on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:38PM (#20688205)
And I like Dave Ramsey's mortgage calculator: https://www.daveramsey.com/mortgage-calculator

Or retirement calculator: https://www.daveramsey.com/smartvestor/investment-calculator

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by rchaud on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:17PM (#20689256)
For an increasing proportion of users, the "address bar" is now the "Google search" bar. You may have discovered xe.com when the distinction was much more obvious, but as time went on the browser UI underwent changes, that will change as well.

New versions of Chromium will begin hiding the full URL entirely, probably so that more and more marketing/targeting related UTM parameters can be jammed in without the user ever even knowing.

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by t0ughcritic on Thursday August 15, 2019 @02:05AM (#20702973)
No it’s so you don’t remember it or care for urls and just search everything making google the only source of info online.

Pay to play baby if you want to show up

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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by aeyes on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:56PM (#20689594)
I just type "20 usd in eur" in the address bar and get the result without even hitting the enter key.
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Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click by concert-gilled on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:33PM (#20688855)
I don't know about Google but DuckDuckGo pulls conversions from Xe. It is much quicker to duck the conversion than to find it after hitting Xe's homepage.
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