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Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users by tshaddox on Thursday October 14, 2021 @08:06PM (#28872030)
> one of the other most frequently searched terms on google is "google",

Perhaps one of the most frequent, but surely nowhere near the majority. I'm guessing it's still an incredibly tiny portion of searches. The fact that Google Search also handles this case, for the likely tiny portion of cases where it occurs, seems totally reasonable to me, and hardly an indictment of any browser's UI paradigm.

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Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users by notatoad on Thursday October 14, 2021 @08:30PM (#28872251)
I don't mean to indict any browser's UI paradigm.

My point was just that you shouldn't draw too many conclusions from user behaviour because user behaviour is often dumb and a poor signal of what users actually want.

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