Comments on: How do I get to www.google.com?

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By: Digital Dog

Digital Dog — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:54:33 +0000

I was looking at the leaked AOL search data the other day and noticed that “Goggle” (sic) is one of the top search terms… “Google” (spelled correctly) is #1.

By: AAbigail

AAbigail — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:38:54 +0000

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By: azlan

azlan — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:54:11 +0000

hmmm…. interesting. i think because the earlier browser plugin was done by yahoo and MSN as part of their popular messanging service and IE. google is a bit late comer.

azlan
Online Business with a kampung boy

By: Michiel

Michiel — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:09:56 +0000

Your remark on PPC may not be entirely true. For my father e.g. soccer news is important. He searches for Ajax.nl on Google (a Dutch soccer team), and then finds Google news on Ajax. Then he clicks through to news.google.com. I had to teach him recently a new trick, since Google didn’t show news on the search page anymore! So now he clicks on news first, and then types “Ajax”.

Also it’s very smart of Google to not show him Javascript development pages nor cleaning detergent pages.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:21:01 +0000

Actually, I use it for a page i already know the url to because of the right click “Search Google for …” in firefox.

By: Zoltan Szucs

Zoltan Szucs — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:26:48 +0000

OK, my guess: Yahoo, MSN and Live.com are quite heavily used as a browser ‘Home page’. Maybe it is just because they are the default setting for IE or they are just popular news sites. So I would speculate that a significant share of Live.com’s search traffic is coming from those ‘Home page’ users. Maybe much more than Google’s search traffic. And here comes Matt and his impatience. And I would go even further and speculate that Live.com’s users tend to be a bit less proficient handling a browser so they may mix up the location bar and the search field more often.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:27:43 +0000

Yahoo and MSN users are captive to their legacy email accounts and use the search box that’s closest to them. Yahoo and Hotmail each have 5X the users of Gmail, a fact most Google fanboys seldom acknowledge.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/08/a-comparison-of-live-hotmail-gmail-and-yahoo-mail

People go to Google to explicitly search for something. One extra step. May as well just type in amazon.com. Google would love to be up there with MSN and Yahoo. If they had managed to buy Facebook they may have had a chance.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:44:23 +0000

@Jack … I never said my parents weren’t smart! Man I’ll never hear the end of it at Thanksgiving … :)

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:34:20 +0000

I’ve just blogged about why I do it:

First, if I type into the search box instead of the address bar, it doesn’t matter if I make a typing mistake. Second, I might be guessing or have half-remembered the URL I want: it may look stange if I get it right, but often I don’t. Third, there are plenty of Web sites that are not very responsive, or include a lot of junk code. Rather than going to the site, I might actually want to look at it in Google’s cache first.

Jeremy, maybe your parents are smart ;-)

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/10/18/how_do_you_get_to_googlecom.html

By: Matt Drewry

Matt Drewry — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:16:04 +0000

I would question how many of these are actually conscious searches in the sense that users go to their engine of choice, wait for the page to load, then actually type http://www.amazon.com and hit the search button?

I’m apparently doing this all the time, however I’m not, it’s just that I’m impatient for a new browser to open very often. I go to start, pick my browser of choice and then immediately click into the address bar, quickly typing in the site I want and hit return, all without really checking the screen.

What actually happens is that the browser fully loads (on the search engine I’ve saved as my homepage), disregards/not registers that I clicked into the address bar and then enters the http://www.amazon.com address into the search field, as that’s where the cursor is defaulted to appear on the page. Since I hit return anyway, the search is made, and of course I sheepishly pick the top result that is now on the page in front of me!

I do see myself as web savvy, just impatient with that!

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:15:00 +0000

Actually, these searches are valuable. For the larger sites Google doesn’t allow PPC adverts but for thousands of smaller sites there is a PPC advert at the top of the page.

Google is making money when the user clicks on the PPC ad.
Example:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=www.theaa.com&gl=uk

By: James Kaplan

James Kaplan — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:01:06 +0000

I can speculate a little as well, as this entry is stimulating. I suppose that it’s known that many people are aware they’re typing addresses into a search field, but how often? If it’s an appreciable share, then having an ‘i’m feeling lucky’ button next to your search box might have some effect. Are these stats compiled in a way that would reflect that, or no?

By: Bob Warfield

Bob Warfield — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:14:18 +0000

I’d have to speculate there are more browsers defaulting to Yahoo and LiveSearch instead of Google when a link is mistyped. With that said, as you point out, those searches are not very valuable, so Google could care less about losing that share.

Cheers,