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Tuesday, 7 October 2008 1:05 pm

Searching for search engines?

Saturday, 16 September 2006  

If you want proof that there’s still a significant percentage of internet users who haven’t bothered to learn even the basics of how to use their browser, look no further than the Wordtracker top keywords list:

Rank Keyword Popularity
2 google 4,670
3 myspace 4,029
5 yahoo 3,759
6 myspace.com 3,639
7 ebay 3,302
10 mapquest 2,332
11 yahoo.com 2,273

Based on the current top 30 keywords, we can see that 7 of the top 12 searches didn’t need to be searches at all.

If only users understood that their browser has a location bar, where they could directly type in the URL of the website they’re trying to get to, they wouldn’t have to search for search engines like Google and Yahoo, which they’re doing at the moment.

Posted in Google, Software, Technology, Web by Ivan
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 one comment:

  1. Mandolina - Tuesday, 3 October 2006 9:57 am  

    I must admit I use my firefox search bar quite often as an address bar... Sorry ;-)


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