Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
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Re: Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
#2Just yesterday I witnessed my friend type a url into the google search bar (on the results page). She found what she was looking for, so I guess that's alright.
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#3The amazon.com results are only slightly different compared to co.uk: https://i.judge.sh/verifiable/Glimglam/chrome_LrAiLBZiPM.png
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#4What I find more troubling is that amazon allows unmoderated user input to appear as suggestions.
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#6We mostly learn by trial and error. So do users need to be shielded from making mistakes?
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#7I suspect that's why Apple moved the URL bar to the bottom of the screen in iOS Safari. For better or for worse, it now stands out a lot more from the search boxed within websites.
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#8What I find more troubling is that amazon allows unmoderated user input to appear as suggestions.
Seems fine as long as no one tells 4chan.
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Re: Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
#10Just yesterday I witnessed my friend type a url into the google search bar (on the results page). She found what she was looking for, so I guess that's alright.
This is probably why Google truly pays to be the default on search. They end up a data collection middleman for people they provide no actual beneficial service[0] to: Folks who already know where they are going.
[0] One could argue that Google will correct spelling and URL errors for you. But on the other hand, it's likely to inject ads above the real destination, which are very likely fraud, so I'd say it's a wash at best there.