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Browser design flaw? Or is it search engines?
I took call from a reader today who couldn't access a link in the magazine because they had entered it into the search engine box rather than the address bar of the browser. It's an easy mistake to make. After all, the search box is right in the middle of the screen.
It's not always a problem, type www.computeractive.co.uk into Google and the website is the first result in the list. But, type www.snipca.com/X911 (a shortened link to Windows Update) and there are no matches.
Surely it's not beyond the likes of Google to look through the search term and warn that it might be a link in the wrong place if www or http:// is found.
well, actually I use the search engine, in my case google, to find the www. whatever, and rarely do I have a problem, and if I do I use the address bar. The example you use,(snipca) I would never want to find anyway.
The whole point is as you say the search box will give several alternatives, and if I get the spelling wrong it makes a sugestion like 'did you mean ...' and there you go. Apart from the obvious as you put it it is right bang in the middle of the screen, not obscurely up the top somewhere. If you use the address bar you have to be accurate in the extreme to get it right spelling wise I mean, otherwise it wont find it. It works, and before anyone says anything about me not knowing about computers etc, I worked for BT and in the 80's and 90's I had 2 on my desk. Apart from which I have been using my personal pc since windows 3.1 days. Now am using an AMD 64 x2 with xp with Avant browser and Google protected by Kaspersky. I find it's a fast and convienient way of working... everyone has their own particular way and style of working, and no one person has the right of it!
posted-by Paul | February 3, 2010 5:22 PM
Browser is surely a searching engine.Photography is my center of interest and I am able to learn much about photography with help of Digital Wedding Photography which found while searching. So will surely say that browser is searching engine.
posted-by richard thomas | February 5, 2010 7:43 AM