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elwoos
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2052 Posts |
 Posted - 2010-10-21 : 08:55:01
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Controversial subject line I know  We have just been looking at our web stats, which lets be honest are always good for a laugh.The one that came to light today was the number of people who search our site for bing.com or google.com among the other wierd and wonderful. Interestingly there were twioe as many searching for bing.com as for google. Naturally we have drawn out own conclusions however I was wondering if anyone else had come across anything like this.To be frank I don't understand why anyone would search for either, surely its quicker to type the address into the address bar, isn't it? For reference our search box is in the top right corner like the SQLTeam one.steve-----------I used to think I wasn't a morning person but it never got better in the afternoon |
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webfred
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
8781 Posts |
Posted - 2010-10-21 : 09:05:39
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Maybe your search box is labeled / labelled withSearch with:
No, you're never too old to Yak'n'Roll if you're too young to die. |
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Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)
7020 Posts |
Posted - 2010-10-21 : 09:52:00
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| How many people use your search to look for porn?CODO ERGO SUM |
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Sachin.Nand
2937 Posts |
Posted - 2010-10-21 : 12:03:10
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Originally posted by Michael Valentine Jones
How many people use your search to look for porn?CODO ERGO SUM
& how good is the result of the seacrh???  PBUH |
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blindman
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2365 Posts |
Posted - 2010-10-21 : 12:04:37
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| Seems to me the fault may lay in your page design, and not in your users.Perhaps your search bar is too close or too similar to the browser search bar or address bar.________________________________________________If it is not practically useful, then it is practically useless.________________________________________________ |
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X002548
Not Just a Number
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Kristen
Test
22859 Posts |
Posted - 2010-10-21 : 15:38:00
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| "surely its quicker to type the address into the address bar"IM<E they think they are doing, or don;t know the difference.I see lots of people FIND Google in their Favourites and then type into the search WWW.SomeDomain.COM - they simply don't know that they can type that into the Address bar. When I tell them they say something like "Why would I want to do that, it works just fine from Google" - and often "Plus I thought that's what Google was for, to find things on The Web"I've seen Live Usability tests of web sites using people unfamiliar with the sites / the type of sites etc. Its very eye-opening what people try to click / how they try to navigate. |
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blindman
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2365 Posts |
Posted - 2010-10-21 : 16:03:44
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| When I type my search terms in the address bar in FireFox, it performs a yahoo search. And I don't see where I can configure this to do a google search instead.________________________________________________If it is not practically useful, then it is practically useless.________________________________________________ |
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robvolk
Most Valuable Yak
15732 Posts |
Posted - 2010-10-21 : 16:40:21
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Kristen
Test
22859 Posts |
Posted - 2010-10-21 : 17:16:32
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Originally posted by blindman
When I type my search terms in the address bar in FireFox, it performs a yahoo search. And I don't see where I can configure this to do a google search instead.
You just need to install Chrome |
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elwoos
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2052 Posts |
Posted - 2010-10-22 : 04:30:17
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Originally posted by blindman
Seems to me the fault may lay in your page design, and not in your users.Perhaps your search bar is too close or too similar to the browser search bar or address bar.
Thats a fair point, then I realised it is almost exactly the same location on the page as the SQL team one. Isn't that were most people put them? Certainly the first place I consciously look for a search box is the top right of a page but maybe that's just me.Strangely no searches for porn, possibly because they think we are watching them as possibly the strangest search was "Are you spying on me"fwiw my vote goes for chrome too, it's by far the fastest to load initially and to load pages for me though it is a bit of a resource hog.I have seen some of the stranger user stuff. My father in law can't find his email if his icon moves from its normal location, and if it gets renamed he gets very agitated.steve-----------I used to think I wasn't a morning person but it never got better in the afternoon |
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blindman
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2365 Posts |
Posted - 2010-10-22 : 10:24:58
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Originally posted by robvolk
http://www.technipages.com/firefox-change-address-bar-search-provider.html
I have no words to describe what a horrible example of application design that is. The closest I can come up with is "Microsoftish".Really FireFox, I expected better of you.________________________________________________If it is not practically useful, then it is practically useless.________________________________________________ |
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