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| Patrick 2006-08-17, 6:47 pm |
| Karl Groves wrote:
> http://www.dontdelete.com/
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> I've been hitting the random user search to see all the crazy shit people
> search for.
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That's pretty funny. I found one that was searching for dragon tattoos
and cheese cake recipes.
Patrick
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Ocean Circulation Group – USF - college of Marine Science
http://ocgweb.marine.usf.edu Phone: 727 553-3334
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was. - La Rochefoucauld
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| Swampy Bogtrotter 2006-08-17, 6:48 pm |
| Karl Groves wrote:
> http://www.dontdelete.com/
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> I've been hitting the random user search to see all the crazy shit
> people search for.
I'm surprised by how few people seem to search for porn, LOL....
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| In <Jx1Fg.1315$7Q5.1133@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net>,
"Swampy Bogtrotter" <samandjanetknox@tessco.net> mentions:
>Karl Groves wrote:
>
>I'm surprised by how few people seem to search for porn, LOL....
People are _still_ typing URL's into search boxes I see...
I really hope this just represents the AOL population and not the
average user.
Jamie
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http://www.geniegate.com Custom web programming
guhzo_42@lnubb.pbz (rot13) User Management Solutions
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| Andy Mabbett 2006-08-17, 6:48 pm |
| In message <Xns98218C8BF763Dkarlkarlcorecom@216.196.97.136>, Karl Groves
<karl@NOSPAMkarlcore.com> writes
>I've been hitting the random user search to see all the crazy shit
>people search for.
Like "Google"...
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Andy Mabbett
Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/>
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| Mark Goodge 2006-08-17, 6:48 pm |
| On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:09:34 GMT, Jamie put finger to keyboard and
typed:
>In <Jx1Fg.1315$7Q5.1133@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net>,
>"Swampy Bogtrotter" <samandjanetknox@tessco.net> mentions:
>
>People are _still_ typing URL's into search boxes I see...
The really bizarre thing is that the number one search term on AOL is
"google".
Mark
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Visit: http://www.MineOfUseless.info - everything you never needed to know!
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| William Tasso 2006-08-17, 6:48 pm |
| Fleeing from the madness of the ntlworld News Service jungle
Swampy Bogtrotter <samandjanetknox@tessco.net> stumbled into
news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:
> ...
> I'm surprised by how few people seem to search for porn, LOL....
everyone already knows where it is?
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William Tasso
http://williamtasso.com/words/what-is-usenet.asp
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| freemont 2006-08-17, 6:48 pm |
| On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:30:49 +0100, Mark Goodge wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:09:34 GMT, Jamie put finger to keyboard and
> typed:
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> The really bizarre thing is that the number one search term on AOL is
> "google".
I see clients doing this all the time. That's how they get to a site.
Their home page is usually either Yahoo or MSN. They want google.com for
instance, they type it in the home page's search box, get google as the
first return, and click that. I explain things to them the first time I
see them doing it, but they never change. The search box on home pages
like Yahoo and MSN "grabs" the cursor, so that when these people start IE
and their home page comes up, when they start typing a url it goes into
the search. A lot of them (typical non-tech home users) are totally
unaware of the address bar's function. They've never used it, ever.
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"Because all you of Earth are idiots!"
¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·-> freemont© <-·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯
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| Mark Goodge 2006-08-17, 6:48 pm |
| On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:51:59 -0400, freemont put finger to keyboard
and typed:
>On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:30:49 +0100, Mark Goodge wrote:
>
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>I see clients doing this all the time. That's how they get to a site.
>Their home page is usually either Yahoo or MSN. They want google.com for
>instance, they type it in the home page's search box, get google as the
>first return, and click that. I explain things to them the first time I
>see them doing it, but they never change. The search box on home pages
>like Yahoo and MSN "grabs" the cursor, so that when these people start IE
>and their home page comes up, when they start typing a url it goes into
>the search. A lot of them (typical non-tech home users) are totally
>unaware of the address bar's function. They've never used it, ever.
The foolish ingenuity of some users never ceases to amaze me. We once
had a smallish redesign of an internal website which meant moving a
page to a new URL. Got a call from a user complaining that the page
was "broken". I asked if she'd followed the new links from the
Intranet home page, and was told "no, I always go straight there from
the dropdown options". I figured she meant bookmarks (or favorites, if
you're using IE), and suggested that she follow the links from the
homepage this once and then re-bookmark the new location.
"How do I do that?" she asked. I was a bit puzzled - how could she
have bookmarked the page in the first place without knowing how to do
it? So I took a walk to her department and asked her to show me what
she was doing. It turned out that she was typing the first few letters
of the Intranet URL into the address bar, waiting for auto-complete to
bring up a list of previously visited sites and then selecting from
that. And that was how she got to all the Intranet pages - the idea of
navigating round the system, typing a URL in full, or using bookmarks,
was something that had never previously occurred to her. She thought
that because it was the Intranet, not "the web", it had to be done
differently. After all, Intranet addresses don't begin with "www", so
it can't be the same as the web, can it?
Mark
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Please give me one! http://www.pleasegivemeone.com
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| Karl Groves 2006-08-17, 6:48 pm |
| "William Tasso" <SpamBlocked@tbdata.com> wrote in news:op.tef1frq7m9g4qz-
wnt@tbdata.com:
> Fleeing from the madness of the ntlworld News Service jungle
> Swampy Bogtrotter <samandjanetknox@tessco.net> stumbled into
> news:alt.www.webmaster
> and said:
>
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> everyone already knows where it is?
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Yeah. Usenet. <BG>
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Karl Groves
www.karlcore.com
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| Kim André Akerø 2006-08-17, 10:39 pm |
| Jamie wrote:
> In <Jx1Fg.1315$7Q5.1133@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net>,
> "Swampy Bogtrotter" <samandjanetknox@tessco.net> mentions:
>
> People are still typing URL's into search boxes I see...
I know. My mother keeps doing that (having Google as her start page),
even after several attempts on my part to show her the location of the
address bar on her screen. Even though it will save her one click, she
only uses the address bar once or twice after each time I show her, but
as soon as I lean back on the couch, she goes back to using the search
field on the Google start page. I've basically given up on that
particular subject.
--
Kim André Akerø
- kimandre@NOSPAMbetadome.com
(remove NOSPAM to contact me directly)
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| Charles Sweeney 2006-08-17, 10:39 pm |
| freemont wrote
> the search. A lot of them (typical non-tech home users) are totally
> unaware of the address bar's function. They've never used it, ever.
We had this discussion years ago!
Interesting to see that people are still doing that.
--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com
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