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- cambrown99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+133"I guess people arent smart enough to figure out googles home page..."
Well, they WERE using AOL... - Slashriffs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+42Its not Google on Google.
Its Google on AOL.
I guess people arent smart enough to figure out googles home page... - GeneralFailure0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27No surprise the majority of AOL users actually need the help of a search engine to find google.
- ani-pockdotnet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27If I recall correctly from the days of AOL 4.0, the integrated browser is also the AOL search/keyword entry area. So maybe the users just want to go to Google.com but it shows up as a search?
- kwazyJAS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20.COM google
- talledega500, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Given the AOLs user recent experience. Perhaps they should be searching for
http://www.blackboxsearch.com instead. - Rayza, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Kinda like looking up "dictionary" in a dictionary.. Or potato..
- kepeli999, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I sit with people at their computers all the time. Most people, and I mean MOST people, don't know the difference between the address bar and the search field on the default site that first comes up.
- EasY_TargeT, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11People searching google for yahoo.
- prattmic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10It is probably people like my mom. She has MSN as her homepage and doesn't know what the address bar is. She will search for any URL she wants to go to.
- nugge7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12This makes me happy. :-)
- doctornkul, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9This is nothing unusual... If you recall a digg story from a while back, the number one search on Google is Yahoo.
- timpkmn89, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I've seen people at my school who go to www.google.com, and type in "myspace" to go to www.myspace.com -_-
- OmegaNine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@srg13
CTRL+ENTER - srg13, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I search google on google a lot... If I'm too lazy to type google.com in the address bar, I just type google. In firefox (by default) it does an "I'm feeling lucky" search. It's really handy to just be able to surf by typing digg or gmail etc. in the address bar.
- bryxal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6interesting since AOL's search is now powered by google.....
(but i do agree they probably just type google in the adress bar and use the "i'm feeling lucky feature") - Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4no idea how aol's browser is configured, but I guess if you just type google in the address bar, with nothing, it searches on aol for google. No idea if AOL also has I feel lucky. But if I type
programmer available
in the address bar of firefox I end up on my own site thanks to how firefox uses google's I feel lucky :-) - shadekeiko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@gd007
Actually, back in the days of yore when we had AOL at my household, I had parental controls. And guess what? AOL blocked every other search engine but its own. No Google, no Yahoo, not even frickin' Yahooligans. I remember I had to specifically ask my parents to use their account to get to Google to research stuff for school. It was, to say the least, extrordinarily awful. - PAJK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@i440:
Do you ever wonder why SO MANY of your comments get dugg down? This brings me to ponder: do trolls know they're trolls? Hell, I, along with many others just digg you down on principle of you being you, what with how you seem to troll almost every story on digg (especially Linux/Flash ones). - person, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Good thing that Google bought 5% of AOL...
- SwabTheDeck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I don't get it. Are you sure "boobs" wasn't the top search query? I really like Google, but I think I still like boobs more. Am I alone?
- PureMassacre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3although some of the queries may be dumb people, im assuming some of them were accidental. i.e. if their home page is set to aol, when the browser is opened, the cursor defaults to the aol (msn, yahoo, etc.) search. if they try to type in google in the address bar to quickly before the page has loaded, the cursor may be defaulted, and it may be typed in the search instead of the address bar.(it has happened to me many times, most of the time I end up w/ fragmented words in a search)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's pretty simple. I've seen so many AOL users do this. They will go to search and type in http://www.google.com and then click on the link provided to them by the search itself. Its sad what AOL did to the internet. I'm glad their stranglehold is coming to a close. So many AOL users don't know how to use the "address bar".
- Create, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3lol, i just typed 'boobs' into aol.com
it gives me a 'You have entered a search term that is likely to return adult content.' warning page before proceeding... but the banner ad on the side of the page is for an 'Adult Fantasy Finder'
...brilliant!
also... on a side note... isn't aol's search... powered... by... google ??? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Other interesting facts:
1] People search for the domain name that they want to actually go to.
2] When people type in a city name, often, they're searching for a business - srg13, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I like my way better: Say you want to go to a website like Concerned (hlcomic.com). I can just type "concerned" (no quotes) in the address bar and it will take me there.
- athlonmj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3In other news, AOL sucks.
- xtr3m, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's pretty sad.
- Ricapar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think this would be because of how some people use the URL bar:
They type a single word into the box, and press enter. (You type "Google")
What the browser does: It does a search, and automatically redirects you to the first result. - spacey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In a previous job I regularly reviewed the webtrends reports for one of the major broadband ISPs in the US - and the top searched keywords (for their portal) were ALWAYS google, yahoo, hotmail and AOL. There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of customers who really have no idea how to use the address bar.
FWIW, this company had no interest in "teaching" their customers either - as they served ads on their portal and by their portals search. - Germanicus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Oh wow, I never knew about the ctrl+enter thing. Cool! Thanks
- Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't think people are stupid. A number of times I've searched for a site and then found out the URL was the word I typed but with a .com added. It could be that they're just not very internet savvy and don't know that msn.com is MSN's URL. I'm sure there was a point when all of us did not know that you had to put a .com or whatever on the end of the address you want. Although with firefox that isn't even necessary any more.
- eurleif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The number-one word used in search queries (besides ones like "the") seems to be "free", FWIW.
- Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@ani-pockdotnet
Exactly, the search / URL / Keyword bar are all the same, so I'm sure people typed in google expecting it to take them to google.com, and it probably does so they kept doing it. No digg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3So people don't know the URL to Google's homepage? They have to search for it? I don't get why people need to Google Google. Or even search "Google".
- tOpvillyn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ugh this is a great example of AOL users. I'm surprised they even knew what google was and to even search for it. AOL users should have their own 'internet.' An internet with training wheels, and away from others. This way they can't infect other users or businesses with their stupidity.
I understand that there are some technically talented users on AOL (EGH!?) that might not be as incompetent as the rest, but a good percentage of AOL users are th00per n00bsth.
My peeve is that AOL gives their users too much power with email. Let's give them a round of applause for clicking "Report As Spam" to blacklist/rate limit yet another legit sender of email. They obviously think the button cures cancers or arrests all the child molesters in the world.
--end rant--- - lowerlogic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Because if you try to search for 'boobs' on AOL it redirects you to lemonparty.
- Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yup, I get now and then hits for
johnbokma.com
via Google, so people just typed that into the search field of google instead of the address bar. And why not if it already has the focus :-) - Darkfrost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Haha, I actually laughed at this... and i dont laugh often...
I wonder if those people who searched for Google on AOL then go and search for Yahoo on Google? :P - robinsloan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's not just noobs. A full quarter of ALL searches are navigational (according to Andrei Broder at Yahoo). The top searches on Google are for Yahoo, eBay, etc.; on Yahoo they're for Google, AOL, etc.
- whatsername990, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1when i was younger, i did the exact same thing as these people were doing...i left KID'S AOL by searching for Google in AOL's search engine. i dont know if this is teh case anymore, but you couldnt actually leave kid's AOL by typing in a URL, you had to link to it from AOL.
the solution really is to just get rid of AOL and help these poor people who have to actually search for google. - sebnukem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This just proves that AOL users are computer illiterate. For AOL users, AOL is the "internet". They somehow heard about something called Google and just ask the "internet" what it is about.
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Why on earth are there so many queries for "Google" on Google?"
I bet it's because on Firefox when you type something into the adress bar and hit enter it does an i'm feeling lucky on google. It's people just typing google without the .com or http://, it simply does an "i'm feeling lucky" for Google and brings up the main Google page. Easy to understand. - kodek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Ah, the power of proxies."
You're saying that as if a proxy is being used for some weird use. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They are not that internet cultured. No one starts knowing something. Anyway this shows how powerful the Google brand is
- DrewClayton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1^^^this is EXACTLY what is happening, the article's conclusion is bogus. people do it with their IE when the msn search bar appears too (since msn is their homepage....).
- Mysidia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This suggests a course of action.
MSN and Yahoo should remove google.com from their search results, and vice-versa.
The search engines have no obligation to direct people to their competitors. - Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"i felt cold for hours couldnt get warm why 871084 2006-04-23 18:52:12
my body had cold chills was it a virus 871084 2006-04-23 18:53:04
cold chills over my whole body one night why 871084 2006-04-24 22:25:19
i got sick my body had cold chills i stay cold for hours " - ogletree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The really stupid thing is that AOL is google. AOL is a mirror of google. So it is the same as searching for Google on Google.
This is very common. These people have aol search as their home page and a lot of people use the search box on their home page instead of the address bar. - tyshock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0With idiots like this.....
http://www.datablunder.com/userlogs/view/29
......there's no chance AOL will ever be respected. -
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