The Goolge Habbit
The google habbit is when people just type the url of a website in the google search box and not in their browser’s url box. People don’t realize how important search is. Today I had a ticket in my inbox about a site not working. I went to the user’s desk and found the user using google to enter the url. Guess what? The site he was looking for wasn’t on the first page. Here lies the problem. We have become so reliant on google’s results.
I started to notice users falling into this habit a while ago. I thought it was crazy until I realized I was doing it as well. The more accurate google got, the more I just started to rely on its results. The big problem is this; what if the site doesn’t rank well? Let’s get back to the place where we type the full url in the browser’s url box.