Still surprises me just how many people put website names into google instead of just putting the address into their browser. It's like AOL keywords or something :/
The most common search in Google is 'Google' apparently...
Probably some of that is people like me who accidentally hit enter instead of ctrl-enter after typing google, causing it to go to google and search for the word google.
What is ctrl-enter for?
It puts http://www.<what you typed>.com and then navigates to that location. Works in IE, Firefox, and Safari (haven't checked other browsers.
Go to the address bar and type "google" - then hit ctrl-enter. Ctrl-shift-enter is .org, and alt-shift-enter is .net.
Oh thanks, I was trying ctrl-enter in the search bar, not the address bar.
People google for Yahoo. Now thats just dumb.
Since Yahoo is (also) a portal, not nearly as dumb as the other way around!
I do it all the time. It's a lot more convenient than fiddling with domain names, top-level domains, typing errors, etc. (ctrl-k)hacker news(enter) is a lot easier to type than (ctrl-l)news.y(enter) in my opinion given that the latter requires me to press shift and > (thats a . on a UK keyboard) the same time which is a bit of a hassle.
(ctrl-t)n(enter) here. I'll admit that it is rare to type in a full website address nowadays. And using Chrome, Google knows everything I type in anyway....
unfortunately, (ctrl-t)n yields news.bbc.co.uk for me.
In Chrome, would "imdb <my movie>" or "amazon <my book>" show up as googling a website name? That could explain some of it.