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user-inactivated · 3952 days ago · link · · parent · post: The biggest land rush in the history of the internet begins on February 4
I know a number of older people (late 40s and up) who primarily navigate to every website by google search. I'm not sure they even know URLs for facebook or other common sites. (Hell, as far as I know they might not even know what a URL is.) This makes Chrome's all-in-one search and address omnibar make a lot of sense. In terms of usability, it's really ingenious, in my opinion. Unfortunately, it means that google can track literally everywhere a person goes on the web, and they can display ads ever increasingly for ever increasing numbers of queries (for people who just google every site they want to navigate to).