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cabel.name: Japan: URL's Are Totally Out
by Decius at 2:18 pm EDT, Mar 25, 2008 |
Within minutes of riding on the first trains in Japan, I notice a significant change in advertising, from train to television. The trend? No more printed URL's. The replacement? Search boxes!1 With recommended search terms! It makes sense, right? All the good domain names are gone. Getting people to a specific page in a big site is difficult (who's going to write down anything after the first slash?). And, most tellingly, I see increasingly more users already inadvertently put complete domain names like "gmail" and "netflix" into the Search box of their browsers out of habit — and it doesn't even register that Google pops up and they have to click to get to their destination.
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RE: cabel.name: Japan: URL's Are Totally Out
by bucy at 6:14 pm EDT, Mar 25, 2008 |
Decius wrote: Within minutes of riding on the first trains in Japan, I notice a significant change in advertising, from train to television. The trend? No more printed URL's. The replacement? Search boxes!1 With recommended search terms! It makes sense, right? All the good domain names are gone. Getting people to a specific page in a big site is difficult (who's going to write down anything after the first slash?). And, most tellingly, I see increasingly more users already inadvertently put complete domain names like "gmail" and "netflix" into the Search box of their browsers out of habit — and it doesn't even register that Google pops up and they have to click to get to their destination.
I told you so :P |
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Re: URL's Are Totally Out
by noteworthy at 8:23 pm EDT, Mar 25, 2008 |
Within minutes of riding on the first trains in Japan, I notice a significant change in advertising, from train to television. The trend? No more printed URL's. The replacement? Search boxes! With recommended search terms!
To direct someone to my page, I find it is often easier just to tell someone to do a Google search for twice filtered than to get the uninitiated to spell MemeStreams correctly. |
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RE: cabel.name: Japan: URL's Are Totally Out
by Maco at 4:29 pm EDT, May 13, 2008 |
Decius wrote: Within minutes of riding on the first trains in Japan, I notice a significant change in advertising, from train to television. The trend? No more printed URL's. The replacement? Search boxes!1 With recommended search terms! It makes sense, right? All the good domain names are gone. Getting people to a specific page in a big site is difficult (who's going to write down anything after the first slash?). And, most tellingly, I see increasingly more users already inadvertently put complete domain names like "gmail" and "netflix" into the Search box of their browsers out of habit — and it doesn't even register that Google pops up and they have to click to get to their destination.
There's also the fact that certain web browsers *cough*IE*cough* lack support for Unicode URLs, though they are supposed to be allowed. Memorizing a long string of characters in a language you don't understand isn't easy. |
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