The Flat Earth Society
Other Discussion Boards => Technology & Information => Topic started by: Thork on December 17, 2013, 11:15:17 PM
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Google has revealed that Facebook topped its list of the most searched-for terms of 2013 in the UK.
The social networking site beat the search company's own YouTube video service to the top spot. Google itself made it in to third place.
Full story (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25402626)
Let me get this straight. People go to google, and search for google? ???
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I've Googled Google before just to see what would come up.
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It's probably people typing "Google" into Google toolbars to send them to main page, and then searching for what they want from there. I've seen plenty of people do that. I guess they just prefer to search from the main page than from the toolbar.
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I for one am shocked nothing related to pornography made the list. Oh wait not everyone Googles their porn?
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Let me get this straight. People go to google, and search for google? ???
From the article:
"Chrome makes no distinction between web addresses and words in its search box so people get lazy and just type in single words like Google rather than full web addresses," he said.
"But this registers as a search."
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It's probably people typing "Google" into Google toolbars to send them to main page, and then searching for what they want from there. I've seen plenty of people do that. I guess they just prefer to search from the main page than from the toolbar.
Yes.
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It's probably people typing "Google" into Google toolbars to send them to main page, and then searching for what they want from there. I've seen plenty of people do that. I guess they just prefer to search from the main page than from the toolbar.
This is also why Bing, which is the default IE search engine, has Google as one of its top searches.