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People really do use Google Search to visit well-known websites instead of typing their names into the address bar
(lemmy.world)
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This still makes no sense to me.
Sometimes chrome doesn’t autocomplete the url I’ve started typing to it takes me to search results, not the website.
Yup, this is me. Its faster to type "fa", press enter, and click the Google link to Facebook than type everything.com.
Google would rather it look like THEY took you there, so most actions are going to give results instead of the actual site.
This happens on firefox with me. It doesn't autocomplete, then I have to tab a couple of search suggestions to get to the website I want.
Sometimes I type the full url out in Firefox and it still searches
Yeah it does that when what you typed contains certain characters, such as the space.
Yeah my android phone the URL and search box is combined so somtimes it think I am searching other times it goes straight to to site.
Ctrl-enter is your friend! Assuming you’re visiting a .com TLD.
bookmark keywords are your friend regardless of TLD