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Re:Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and Ch... by datavirtue on Thursday May 23, 2024 @09:38PM (#40462020)
No need to unwind the pedants.
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Re:Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and Ch... by dylan604 on Friday May 24, 2024 @09:39AM (#40466169)
Nobody was being pedantic. I don't use the web that way. I never type into a search engine the domain of a site I want to go to, so that's just totally odd to me. I'm of an age where we actually know what a domain is, and do not use the web like it is AOL keywords. Especially when >90% of the time, you just tack on a .com to your keywords to find the actual website.
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Re:Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and Ch... by BobaFloutist on Friday May 24, 2024 @03:29PM (#40469677)
> I never type into a search engine the domain of a site I want to go to

I think the plurality, if not majority, of people use a browser configured such that the URL bar is automatically a search engine if it doesn't recognize the URL.

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