Google is where the internet begins, for some people
 

There are so many people I know that have no idea that websites have addresses. That they just load their browser, get a google homepage (or some other home page with a google box) and they type in what they want there.

I recently told a family member to go to yahoo.com, and rather than just go to it, they plug it into Google and search for it and then go to it from the results. Getting them to go to one of my sites (that isn't listed first in google) can be a real chore!

There's no real point to this post, it's just a rant of frustration with people who can't do the simplest tasks online. Sometimes in my own little twisted mind, I try to picture them navigating the net before Google was around. And I chuckle.

heh...my mom does that
I made her a start page for her browser, with a link that goes to a page on my server where I load up stuff I want her to look at.

noticed that as well. I guess a rather large portion of the web users do just that....

Google is where my wealth building began :winkwink:

I know several people who do that.

Me: Why are you typing the URL in there. You already know the URL.
Them: What's "URL" mean?
Me: Uhh, sorry. You already know the address. Why are you searching for it?
Them: What do you mean?
Me: You only need to search for an address when you don't know where you're going. Just type the address in the address bar at the top of the browser window.
Them: The what bar in my what?
Me: Oh, fuck it. Do it your way.

yeah, same with my friends, except they goto file > open url instead of just typing the url into the address bar

My inlaws call the entire internet 'google'. When their internet dropped connection they called up all worried and said that google went down

Yup, it's amazing how many people do this.

Thank god there's still this kind of people out there, who else would buy porn when you can join a torrent site and download everything for free.

My Father in law used to think Google search results are the internet, If what he was looking for was not written in the summary of the page, he was lost.

I enlightened him to click on one of the results and he was in total amazement.. a new world opened up for him... :error

Google is a godsend to me. We all earn from google in my POV and as far as actually searching for something.. It beats the hell out of the 1996 WebCrawler, Exite and remember the good old Infoseek? lol

Hahaha.... yes, I have heard the "My Google went down!" cry for help before.
You just can't help but laugh.

Um with more than 4 billion webpages indexed, Google is like the Godpimp of the internet. Fo rizzle, mah dizzle, nawm meanizzle

That's pretty amazing.

i noticed in my referal stats of my sites often searchengines with the sarched topic "domainname.com" maybe some don't dare to write urls directly into browser :)

Hehe... yeah, that never ceases to amaze me.

its funny cuz it is sooooo true

I do this sometimes... being that I never did change my mozilla start page... when I open a browser I may just start typing my url or whatever i know will bring up the result first and I do it that way.. I only do this when I open a fresh browser...

Its like I can do it much faster when i open a browser that way... instead of moving my mouse or using more key steps to get my cursor to the addey bar instead of the defualt cursor placement on my start page ... in the google/mozilla search box...

i just type the word... enter ... tab tab enter and im there

instead of hand to mouse to addey bar ... type full url, or take the time to chop out the url placement with the mouse or keys and type in just the url...

it just depends on where IM at... do I depend on it, no...



i can see if someone does this full time... or the go to url thing really spazzes me out... but ... dont frustrate yourself over it... you have much bigger shit to think about...

You get that with any site worthy of bookmarking.

I have surfers even typing the entire url in google like http://www.domain.com/home.html I don't know if they're really that dumb or if they thought the mouse cursor was in the address bar.

Way to support Mozilla :thumbsup

Back in the day we used to pray for AOL surfer traffic to come to our sites. These are the same sort of people.

i find this more of a blessing than a curse.

keep on keepin on google surfers!

Everyone in my family does that. I could care less how they do it really. It's frustrating as hell that no one knows how to use the internet but who can blame them. So much shit, so much bloat. If it works for them it works, yknow.

LOL! My in-laws do the exact same thing. They'll call up and say "The Google isn't working" ;)

Carol xoxoxo

Sounds like a GF...