Eye opening stat regarding search
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Chris, Jeff and I recently had a presentation from Microsoft's new internet advertising delivery company Atlas and they reported that 71% of internet searches are what they refer to as Navigational Searches. Those are when someone types "Code Project" into the Search bar rather than www.codeproject.com [^] into the address bar, or General Motors into the search bar rather than www.gm.com[^]. I was amazed. Seems to me that Microsoft should do away with the address bar in IE and replace it with a search bar, that's what everone needs it would appear. If they did that I bet the Google numbers would get clobbered and I think Microsoft could make a reasonable case that this would be an anti-trust issue (which is why I think they probably haven't done this yet).
David Marc Clifton wrote: Next life, when I reincarnate as a woman, I'm going to be a strip club dancing lawyer.
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Chris, Jeff and I recently had a presentation from Microsoft's new internet advertising delivery company Atlas and they reported that 71% of internet searches are what they refer to as Navigational Searches. Those are when someone types "Code Project" into the Search bar rather than www.codeproject.com [^] into the address bar, or General Motors into the search bar rather than www.gm.com[^]. I was amazed. Seems to me that Microsoft should do away with the address bar in IE and replace it with a search bar, that's what everone needs it would appear. If they did that I bet the Google numbers would get clobbered and I think Microsoft could make a reasonable case that this would be an anti-trust issue (which is why I think they probably haven't done this yet).
David Marc Clifton wrote: Next life, when I reincarnate as a woman, I'm going to be a strip club dancing lawyer.
Yes that's very true especially for non technical users. I see many people navigating to Yahoo by opening Google/MSN (their home page) and typing www.yahoo.com. That is extremely common way to navigate.
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
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Chris, Jeff and I recently had a presentation from Microsoft's new internet advertising delivery company Atlas and they reported that 71% of internet searches are what they refer to as Navigational Searches. Those are when someone types "Code Project" into the Search bar rather than www.codeproject.com [^] into the address bar, or General Motors into the search bar rather than www.gm.com[^]. I was amazed. Seems to me that Microsoft should do away with the address bar in IE and replace it with a search bar, that's what everone needs it would appear. If they did that I bet the Google numbers would get clobbered and I think Microsoft could make a reasonable case that this would be an anti-trust issue (which is why I think they probably haven't done this yet).
David Marc Clifton wrote: Next life, when I reincarnate as a woman, I'm going to be a strip club dancing lawyer.
I admit to doing that a fair bit, sometimes out of laziness, sometimes because the sites I want are sub-domains (news.bbc.co.uk for example) and other times because I can't remember whether or not the site's name is hyphenated or whatever. However, Microsoft are a step ahead of you Dave - you can type searches into the address bar in IE7 :)
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Yes that's very true especially for non technical users. I see many people navigating to Yahoo by opening Google/MSN (their home page) and typing www.yahoo.com. That is extremely common way to navigate.
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
Someone actually uses MSN for their home page?
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I admit to doing that a fair bit, sometimes out of laziness, sometimes because the sites I want are sub-domains (news.bbc.co.uk for example) and other times because I can't remember whether or not the site's name is hyphenated or whatever. However, Microsoft are a step ahead of you Dave - you can type searches into the address bar in IE7 :)
As does FireFox...
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I admit to doing that a fair bit, sometimes out of laziness, sometimes because the sites I want are sub-domains (news.bbc.co.uk for example) and other times because I can't remember whether or not the site's name is hyphenated or whatever. However, Microsoft are a step ahead of you Dave - you can type searches into the address bar in IE7 :)
You can also type a search into the address bar of IE6, it then redirects you to a search engine with your results.
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Someone actually uses MSN for their home page?
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Yes. Many non technical people do. People who did not change anything after they bought the PC.
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
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Chris, Jeff and I recently had a presentation from Microsoft's new internet advertising delivery company Atlas and they reported that 71% of internet searches are what they refer to as Navigational Searches. Those are when someone types "Code Project" into the Search bar rather than www.codeproject.com [^] into the address bar, or General Motors into the search bar rather than www.gm.com[^]. I was amazed. Seems to me that Microsoft should do away with the address bar in IE and replace it with a search bar, that's what everone needs it would appear. If they did that I bet the Google numbers would get clobbered and I think Microsoft could make a reasonable case that this would be an anti-trust issue (which is why I think they probably haven't done this yet).
David Marc Clifton wrote: Next life, when I reincarnate as a woman, I'm going to be a strip club dancing lawyer.
David Cunningham wrote:
I was amazed.
I rarely use the address bar. Sites I frequently use are saved in my favorites. Sites I am not sure their domain name use Google. domain name could be anything, cp.com, codeproject.com, thecodeproject.com etc....
Yusuf
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Chris, Jeff and I recently had a presentation from Microsoft's new internet advertising delivery company Atlas and they reported that 71% of internet searches are what they refer to as Navigational Searches. Those are when someone types "Code Project" into the Search bar rather than www.codeproject.com [^] into the address bar, or General Motors into the search bar rather than www.gm.com[^]. I was amazed. Seems to me that Microsoft should do away with the address bar in IE and replace it with a search bar, that's what everone needs it would appear. If they did that I bet the Google numbers would get clobbered and I think Microsoft could make a reasonable case that this would be an anti-trust issue (which is why I think they probably haven't done this yet).
David Marc Clifton wrote: Next life, when I reincarnate as a woman, I'm going to be a strip club dancing lawyer.
I do that since my memory stinks and also because I just sometimes click the wrong box and just shrug and let it go.
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Chris, Jeff and I recently had a presentation from Microsoft's new internet advertising delivery company Atlas and they reported that 71% of internet searches are what they refer to as Navigational Searches. Those are when someone types "Code Project" into the Search bar rather than www.codeproject.com [^] into the address bar, or General Motors into the search bar rather than www.gm.com[^]. I was amazed. Seems to me that Microsoft should do away with the address bar in IE and replace it with a search bar, that's what everone needs it would appear. If they did that I bet the Google numbers would get clobbered and I think Microsoft could make a reasonable case that this would be an anti-trust issue (which is why I think they probably haven't done this yet).
David Marc Clifton wrote: Next life, when I reincarnate as a woman, I'm going to be a strip club dancing lawyer.
I do that, but most other people seem surprised when they see me typing "codeproject" in a search engine input field (not always Google :) ) rather than the address bar.
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Chris, Jeff and I recently had a presentation from Microsoft's new internet advertising delivery company Atlas and they reported that 71% of internet searches are what they refer to as Navigational Searches. Those are when someone types "Code Project" into the Search bar rather than www.codeproject.com [^] into the address bar, or General Motors into the search bar rather than www.gm.com[^]. I was amazed. Seems to me that Microsoft should do away with the address bar in IE and replace it with a search bar, that's what everone needs it would appear. If they did that I bet the Google numbers would get clobbered and I think Microsoft could make a reasonable case that this would be an anti-trust issue (which is why I think they probably haven't done this yet).
David Marc Clifton wrote: Next life, when I reincarnate as a woman, I'm going to be a strip club dancing lawyer.
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Chris, Jeff and I recently had a presentation from Microsoft's new internet advertising delivery company Atlas and they reported that 71% of internet searches are what they refer to as Navigational Searches. Those are when someone types "Code Project" into the Search bar rather than www.codeproject.com [^] into the address bar, or General Motors into the search bar rather than www.gm.com[^]. I was amazed. Seems to me that Microsoft should do away with the address bar in IE and replace it with a search bar, that's what everone needs it would appear. If they did that I bet the Google numbers would get clobbered and I think Microsoft could make a reasonable case that this would be an anti-trust issue (which is why I think they probably haven't done this yet).
David Marc Clifton wrote: Next life, when I reincarnate as a woman, I'm going to be a strip club dancing lawyer.
There is nothing that I find more annoying than typing a URL in my address bar while the DNS for a particular site is out and having IE or FF or any browser search for me. It is one of the first things I disable in a browser. Also, to be a devils advocate, some navigational searches would be the result of not knowing a particular companies website, which technically shouldn't be considered a navigational search but would appear to be one in a gross statistical analysis.
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Chris, Jeff and I recently had a presentation from Microsoft's new internet advertising delivery company Atlas and they reported that 71% of internet searches are what they refer to as Navigational Searches. Those are when someone types "Code Project" into the Search bar rather than www.codeproject.com [^] into the address bar, or General Motors into the search bar rather than www.gm.com[^]. I was amazed. Seems to me that Microsoft should do away with the address bar in IE and replace it with a search bar, that's what everone needs it would appear. If they did that I bet the Google numbers would get clobbered and I think Microsoft could make a reasonable case that this would be an anti-trust issue (which is why I think they probably haven't done this yet).
David Marc Clifton wrote: Next life, when I reincarnate as a woman, I'm going to be a strip club dancing lawyer.
I do that all the time. "GM's website, eh? Wonder if that's gm.com, or generalmotors.com... or general-motors.com... generalmotorscompany.biz? Aw, screw it - what's the URL, Google?" It avoids many of the ugly surprises that come from trying to guess the URL based on a name, only to find that the result is a fake porn site set up by the FBI to catch - Hey! Who's knocking on the door at this hour? :rolleyes: Of course, this falls apart when your destination isn't clearly the top result for your search term. That's why it's nice when businesses put nice, easy-to-remember, easy-to-type URLs on cards, invoices, etc.
David Cunningham wrote:
Seems to me that Microsoft should do away with the address bar in IE and replace it with a search bar, that's what everone needs it would appear
Well, i use 411 a lot, but i'd still be pissed if the phone company took away my dial tone. Keep in mind, there's another scenario where this happens (largely unintentionally): the "i've installed so many browser toolbars i can no longer tell which entry field is my real address bar" user. I've watched this happen numerous times, and you can lay blame squarely at the feet of unscrupulous toolbar vendors who push their wares along side otherwise irrelevant products (not just the adware folks either, although they're still the worst; last i checked, Y! still defaults to installing their toolbar along with the rather-more-popular IM client, and i even saw the venerable Google toolbar bundled with something the other day. And then there's the whole MSN-for-IE6 "tabbed browsing" toolbar, but we're really better off blocking out that memory).
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Chris, Jeff and I recently had a presentation from Microsoft's new internet advertising delivery company Atlas and they reported that 71% of internet searches are what they refer to as Navigational Searches. Those are when someone types "Code Project" into the Search bar rather than www.codeproject.com [^] into the address bar, or General Motors into the search bar rather than www.gm.com[^]. I was amazed. Seems to me that Microsoft should do away with the address bar in IE and replace it with a search bar, that's what everone needs it would appear. If they did that I bet the Google numbers would get clobbered and I think Microsoft could make a reasonable case that this would be an anti-trust issue (which is why I think they probably haven't done this yet).
David Marc Clifton wrote: Next life, when I reincarnate as a woman, I'm going to be a strip club dancing lawyer.
That's why there's a search provider for the address bar?!
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