Juan Ruiz wrote:
Interesting thread. A new trend that we are noticing on the standard
internet users is that instead of bookmarking a page, they are
remembering the keywords on which they found the site (page).
I'm curious -- in what context(s) are you seeing this? Using their own
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Juan Ruiz wrote:
Interesting thread. A new trend that we are noticing on the standard
internet users
Personally I see it as shortcuts.
I've used Quicksilver for quite some time. Typing PS4 and hitting return
launches Photoshop CS4. This is far faster than locating the app itself and
launching it.
The location bar of the browser has become packed with functionality over
the last few years.
Trained Behavior? Habit? Behavioral momentum? One trick ponism?
Every trick learned as a cost/benefit to using it, but there are also costs
to carrying and selecting the tool, ideally if there's only one tool, the
cost for selecting it goes to zero.So ones with the most utility end up
in the
Interesting thread. A new trend that we are noticing on the standard
internet users is that instead of bookmarking a page, they are
remembering the keywords on which they found the site (page).
So, the new path to arrive to an already seeing page is to go to
Google, type the keyword(s) and
hmm...sorry about that I guess it stripped some stuff from my
suggestions. Let me try it this way.
Number 1 should have read:
Site (plus) Term = Perfection
Just wanted to clear that up :)
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Oh, here are the Japanese equivalents: Showing a search field with
suggested search
http://www.cabel.name/2008/03/japan-urls-are-totally-out.html
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First off, the examples given above are mostly cases where people
don't have a domain. Maybe they don't want to go through the whole
rigmarole of creating a website just for the purposes of showing a
trailer. In the first and second examples, after actually searching
Google for the content, I
I'm sure we've all witnessed on how common it is for a user-experience
to begin at Google these days, even when the user has a known
destination/item.
I do it myself. For instance, say I want to look up 'Brighton' on
Wikipedia, I find the most efficient method of getting there to type
James, this phenomena is exceedingly common. Termed navigational queries, or
more generally known item finding, it was recently estimated to be 30% of
searches by researchers at Yahoo. That data and a lot of context at
http://surfmind.com/muzings/?p=119 . I'm not sure of a term that describes
No term, but I have been finding it shared on forums and social sites
recently. Some of the more common forums will only search for words
with 4 or more letters, making short words and acronyms impossible to
find in the threads and messages. Personally, I use it to game the
localness of
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