OT: Internet question

[Silas Martinez]

Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Fairlight (Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:47:57 -0400):
> 
> 
>>Wait, wait wait.  This sounds important:
>>
>>
>>>She actually just typed this into the address bar and hit <enter>.
>>
>>You don't mean -the- address bar, as in...the place where URL's show up,
> 
> [...]
> 
>>Finding it hard to believe someone would be doing this, but I'm also at
>>a loss to otherwise explain your choice of words.
> 
> 
> I don't find it hard to believe at all.  I personally know some people
> who believe that this is the way to perform a search.  Since the "URL"
> fails a DNS lookup, their browser (IE) will do a search on that string.
> 

Yep, not hard to believe at all. In every office I've worked at in 
recent memory, I've encountered at least a few people who fully believe 
this is the best way to do an internet search. I've done my best to 
educate them, but some people just don't seem to want to learn, and 
others are absolutely satisfied with doing it that way, even if it is 
not technically the best way to do a search. Heck, my wife did it that 
way, when we met, six years ago.

Silas Martinez
IT/MIS Manager
Micro Precision Calibration, Inc.