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Isn't it also the most searched-for term on Google? People just type "google" in the address bar when they want to go to a search engine.
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They don't know what a url is, and to them the address bar is the search box, and the search box is the address bar. Developers of all the major browsers made the two elements work interchangeably. A power user can create a web navigation system with plug-ins and customizations that rival a space shuttle for complexity and sophistication. The novice user, and users that are tech challenged can get stuck on the most b…
Adding more fuel to the fire is that most of the benefit in learning the underlying principles of software is being able to build, modify and introspect it. In a terminal, to view a text file, you could use cat. On a phone, you download an app. However, you can't pipe your Free TXT Viewer 2000 to another app (and if you could, it would probably inject ads). As the walled garden closes in, the incentives to learn dimi…
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It does do this, if I put 8*9 in the start menu a little embedded calculator comes up that says 72. It does also prompt me to "see web results" for 8*9 though.
It doesn't, at least not in the way it should. It's not windows figuring it out and giving you a specific result, it's just a webview into Bing, and bing that show the results that way. That's why just under the calculator you have a link to a streetwear clothes brand. You might think "so what, it does work" but 99% of the issues in the start search are due to this offloading to bing that is not aware of your local c…
Alternatively if I type 'hacker', I shall be shown the three windows I currently have open, along with the 7 bookmarks, that match that string.
Otherwise it's a handy shortcut to launch any application I know is installed on the local host.
I believe it's consistently been providing this service for more than twenty years.
Compare ctrl-escape on Microsoft Windows, which should offer much the same experience.
Often while using Microsoft Windows I am trying to find a way back to a fleeting pop-up that graced a corner of my screen before I could fully read or act upon it. This invariably fails to provide a sensible result. For example, type 'update' if you wish to search for, but certainly not find, the source of the various noisy 'Windows Update' notifications. Prepare thyself for disappointment.*
The worst is Google, even if I try to verbatim search something, the results are about what Google thinks I should be interested in, not about what I am actually looking for.
I see here a huge market for search engines which deliver relevant results.
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Early into my career I had a corporate job and virtually all of my coworkers would follow the same approach: 1. type 'google' into the address bar 2. type the name of a major website into the search bar, e.g. 'cnn' 3. click on the cnn link at the top of the search results I always asked them why they wouldn't simply type cnn.com in the address bar, but the only response I got was a confused look People simply don't u…
I've stopped manually typing urls put of fear of typosquatting. If you don't have something bookmarked, it's safer to google for the website and click the first non-ad result.
And "Reddit" is probably added to most searches on Google.
Searching something like "get new cats to adjust to one another" on Google returns nothing but list-icle, SEO-laden crap with incredibly low information density and no mention of personal experience with the search subject from the ethereal "author" of such posts.
Adding site:reddit.com does wonders, but even just typing "get new cats to adjust to one another *reddit* " will return threads going back almost a decade with loads of suggestions, personal experience, and more.
It's not always useful (not anywhere near everything on reddit is worth being sourced) but just chucking the word reddit into search seems to be the most straightforward way to dredge up actual user-generated content that's not 100% crap.
Wish there were search engines designed to crawl more of that side of the internet and less of Google's schlocky results. I'm so sick of list-icles.
