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Re:The Google home page is 500K by chii on Thursday December 23, 2021 @10:14PM (#29669662)
Also, i wonder who actually go to the google home page to search these days, instead of directly typing into the address bar?
Re:The Google home page is 500K by IncandescentGas on Thursday December 23, 2021 @10:38PM (#29669859)
I do. Google is not my default search engine. In the rare case I want to use it, I must visit the google website to search.
Re:The Google home page is 500K by ehnto on Thursday December 23, 2021 @10:46PM (#29669928)
A few of the other search engines let you do "!g" in your query which automatically takes you to a google search instead.
Re:The Google home page is 500K by kiwijamo on Thursday December 23, 2021 @11:44PM (#29670304)
For example: DuckDuckGo.
Re:The Google home page is 500K by maximus-decimus on Thursday December 23, 2021 @11:27PM (#29670197)
You can set google as a search engine then when you type "google.com <space>/<tab>" and it will switch the search engine for this one query. You can edit the exact keyword and set whatever search engine you want in settings -> "search engines" in google.
Re:The Google home page is 500K by JansjoFromIkea on Friday December 24, 2021 @08:57AM (#29673600)
I got an extension that just adds a "search on google" option at the top of any duckduckgo search results page. For most things DDG suffices fine but when it isn't I'll just have to do one extra click.

This feels like a better flow to me than having to remember when I explicitly need to use google in the address bar or having to go to google.com and search it there.

Re:The Google home page is 500K by charcircuit on Thursday December 23, 2021 @10:55PM (#29669984)
You can just click the Google icon in your search box and it will then search with Google.
Re:The Google home page is 500K by ehsankia on Thursday December 23, 2021 @10:30PM (#29669810)
Especially on mobile.

Worth noting that the bad score is only on Mobile, I consistently get 45-50, but on the Desktop section I get 99.

Re:The Google home page is 500K by CrazyCatDog on Thursday December 23, 2021 @10:44PM (#29669910)
But does this really matter? When I pull-up google.com on mobile the search bar is instantaneous; what isn’t instantaneous, is all the superfluous junk that nobody visits google.com for…
Re:The Google home page is 500K by akyoan on Thursday December 23, 2021 @10:37PM (#29669852)
People googling Google, which is a lot.