Re:Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
by colanderman on Thursday July 28, 2011 @08:20PM
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Um, I consider myself a native of computer-land and do this all the time. People accidentally type stuff in the wrong place. That doesn't mean they're cretins.
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Re:Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
by uxp on Thursday July 28, 2011 @09:44PM
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My father's computer uses msn.com as the homepage, which automatically grabs the focus and puts in in the search field of MSN. I'd guess that 90% of his queries on MSN are w.example.com, where the first "W"s are in the address bar where he placed his cursor, and then the actual input is queried to Bing.
Re:Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
by eftpotrm on Friday July 29, 2011 @10:41AM
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OK, perhaps I misworded it, but... it wasn't that it was happening but that it was happening regularly enough to get into the top 10 queries - that strongly implies that it's deliberate.