• @espentan
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    105 months ago

    You might be surprised at how many people don’t really know how to use Google/a search engine effectively.

    Things like “what should I search for to find X” is a sentence I hear from both friends and colleagues quite often.

      • kronisk
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        35 months ago

        I had a coworker in the early 00s that would repeatedly fail to search for something because she would type “www.goggles.com” into the address bar.

      • @NoFun4You
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        5 months ago

        Am I missing something? Lol /s

        • @[email protected]
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          5 months ago

          It’s just unnecessary extra inefficient steps, usually by people not particularly tech-proficient. Not a moral judgement, just an observation!

        • @FutileRecipe
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          05 months ago

          Most browsers I run into, you can search from the address bar. You can also disable or point to a different search engine, if you want. So you could skip going to the site. That aside…most browsers would accept google.com and not need the full https://www

          I say most anecdotally as I haven’t tested them all.

            • @FutileRecipe
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              24 months ago

              I know that’s the point, which is why I said it. The person I replied to asked if they were missing something, so I was attempting to educate them on said point. Then they edited their post to add the /s after the fact.