[identity profile] cybik.livejournal.com 2009-08-24 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I said to mum "go to this site and look at the main page!" and wrote down "http://www.xkcd.com" on a handy bit of paper. A minute later she was being confused because the comic didn't have any relevance to her. She'd googled xkcd rather than typing the address in the address bar..

Argh.
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[personal profile] zz 2009-08-24 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
some people deliberately go to google, then type a www... address into the search box. *sigh*

[identity profile] drdoug.livejournal.com 2009-08-24 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
It's even worse than that. On most sites where I've done any casual analysis, one of the main sources of traffic is people doing just that. Ho hum.

[identity profile] cybik.livejournal.com 2009-08-24 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Dad does that. I have explained repeatedly that that's really, really not the way to do it, but he says he's used to it. *sigh*