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TheEternalBambzip , to fediverse in Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter
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That is pretty cool

018118055 , to mildlyinteresting in People really do use Google Search to visit well-known websites instead of typing their names into the address bar

In college late 90s I knew one person who would navigate to Yahoo and search for Google.

livus ,
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You just unlocked a memory for me!

In the early 2000s I knew someone at my university who would type "google image search" into Google.

SomeoneElse , to mildlyinteresting in People really do use Google Search to visit well-known websites instead of typing their names into the address bar

Sometimes chrome doesn’t autocomplete the url I’ve started typing to it takes me to search results, not the website.

anon ,
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Ctrl-enter is your friend! Assuming you’re visiting a .com TLD.

Still ,
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bookmark keywords are your friend regardless of TLD

youthinkyouknowme ,

This happens on firefox with me. It doesn’t autocomplete, then I have to tab a couple of search suggestions to get to the website I want.

Dodgeit ,
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Sometimes I type the full url out in Firefox and it still searches

Timwi ,
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Yeah it does that when what you typed contains certain characters, such as the space.

Rhynoplaz ,

Yup, this is me. Its faster to type “fa”, press enter, and click the Google link to Facebook than type everything.com.

Google would rather it look like THEY took you there, so most actions are going to give results instead of the actual site.

Hogger85b ,

Yeah my android phone the URL and search box is combined so somtimes it think I am searching other times it goes straight to to site.

LynnValk , to assholedesign in What the fuck. Program is Hyperbeam

Where the fuck is this from?

tryagain ,

I also would like to know this

substill ,

The fact that it says “Close in 3590s” - or an hour long popup - suggests it is fake.

intensely_human ,

Or if it’s not fake then it sure would fit in over at asshole design!

Alice OP ,
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The program is Hyperbeam: and yes it’s real. I have no idea if it’s a bug or not but if it isn’t a bug then what the fuck. It used to be 5 seconds

intensely_human ,

Hey GPT-4 right now we have a five second timeout on this page and we’re only getting a .001% conversion. How can we change this to a 10% conversion?

[bloop de bloop AI math occurring]

Why certainly. Improving the conversion rate of a page is a matter of tweaking the right factors via AB tests to optimize the conversion rate, which is defined as the number of people who convert on a page divided by the number of visitors.

To reach a conversion rate of 10% you could set the timeout for 3600 seconds.

zkfcfbzr , to mildlyinteresting in People really do use Google Search to visit well-known websites instead of typing their names into the address bar

Those graphs are scaled so the largest result is always at 100 - so you can’t really tell how many people are doing this sort of thing from this graph. It could be dozens or millions. Having your search country set to only South Africa also seems pretty non-representative.

raktheundead , to retrogaming in Golden Axe: A home port comparison
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I'm inclined to think the Mega Drive port is actually more enjoyable than the arcade version, even if it gives up a bit in terms of graphics and sound. It's definitely the version I prefer to play. It is always interesting, though, to see how widely Sega's arcade games were ported in that era, even considering that they were console manufacturers themselves.

CaptainLemmit , to mildlyinteresting in People really do use Google Search to visit well-known websites instead of typing their names into the address bar

I do this when I don’t remember if it’s .com .net or whatever

Kelsenellenelvial ,

Same, also if there’s any question if the URL might be something different than the company name, like containing a short form of a word, initialized, or a localization.

Though I think that’s different than what the posted graph states. I might sometimes get mixed up looking for a local company and not knowing if it’s .com or .ca. I’m pretty confident in getting the right URL for common sites like Facebook and Lemmy.

xrtxn , to mildlyinteresting in People really do use Google Search to visit well-known websites instead of typing their names into the address bar

Check how many people googles google

Chariotwheel ,

I do that when internet is kinda funky and I want to check Google, because that's my go to site to see if shit still works. Whatever happens I kinda trust Google the most to be up. So I just search for google in my phone browser which defaults to google.

apemint ,
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Wallace! Amazon.ca, what's the website for that?

Venator ,

I do that when I want to get to Google lens, it's the easiest way since lens.google.com takes you to a bullshit marketing page 🤷

murphys_lawyer , to assholedesign in What the fuck. Program is Hyperbeam
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just wait for an hour you fucking freeloader, jeez. people nowadays have no patience smh my head. /s

001100010010 ,
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No need the /s, “smh my head” is already obvious enough

murphys_lawyer ,
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man, I wish.

Zerlyna , to mildlyinteresting in People really do use Google Search to visit well-known websites instead of typing their names into the address bar
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And then they click the top link for the ad too.

Jellojiggle ,

Isn’t the company who posted the ad charged every time their ad is clicked? Sometimes I click them just to make the company pay for me clicking the ad. Lol yes I can be petty.

dontcarebear , to fediverse in Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter
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Beautiful.

Governments should embrace open source infrastructure and empower it against corporate high-tech.

animist , to linux_gaming in Help me to install Diablo 2 The Hell

When you say manually, you mean you just issued “wine [install file].exe” right?

ProgKing OP ,

Well, what I mean is when I set the executable, Wine prefix, and Wine version.

xylogx OP , to pics in Picture of the moon I took with my superzoom camera

https://i.imgur.com/x1q884N.jpg

daddycool , (edited ) to mildlyinteresting in People really do use Google Search to visit well-known websites instead of typing their names into the address bar

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    livus ,
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    And triple click to open a browser.

    imrichyouknow , to mildlyinteresting in People really do use Google Search to visit well-known websites instead of typing their names into the address bar
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    I do, it’s often more efficient for me, I do have my SearXNG set as systemwide shortcut.

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