Oh for the love of god!

[samwize.livejournal.com]

I am so sick of this conversation.

"Ok, now click into your address bar and type [our url]."

"It says there were no results to the search."

"No, not your search bar. Try hitting Ctrl-O and then typing."

"My cursor disappeared!"

"Try typing the url anyway."

"T-H-E-U-R-L. No results."

"Where are you typing?"

"In the little windowbar thing where you told me."


And don't even get me started on the morons who type into the MSN search box because it's their homepage. GAH!

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[sober-panda.livejournal.com]

I recently had one of those. Yahoo.com was set as her homepage, and she thought the only way to get to another site was to search on Yahoo. More importantly, she thought that you were supposed to click on the address (not a link) in the search results rather than the page name, so she had yet to successfully visit any site other than those linked to from her Yahoo landing page.

[shifuimam.livejournal.com]

Oh my word. My mother, who claims to be sooo computer literate, only uses Google to use the internet. I once tried to explain to her that typing in the URL directly in the address bar was faster than typing in Google and then selecting the right link from the search results, but she was like "I do it this way and it works, so I'm not changing."

Then again, I tried to explain to her once that hours-old sushi from the grocery store wasn't the same as fresh sushi made from fresh fish at a place right off the ocean, but she wouldn't listen.

wtf. o.O

[nem0.livejournal.com]

My mom does the exact same thing! Bargh! And she's actually relatively computer literate, so I don't know why she can't grasp the concept of putting the address in where the address GOES instead of searching for it every time. I mean, it's like calling 411 every time you make a phone call.

[photosinensis.livejournal.com]

Hours old sushi? I wouldn't touch that stuff!

If I'm gonna eat raw fish (yum!), it'd better have been intact no more than an hour ago and swimming that morning.

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

There are ENTIRELY TOO MANY PEOPLE in the world who don't know that address bars EXIST - they have their homepage set to a search engine and type addresses into the search box to get to ANY WEBSITE. Because usually the first hit that comes up is the website itself.

These people confuse and intimidate me. I'm not qualified to deal with that level of stupid.

[matgb]

Is it still the case that Google's top search term is hotmail.com and MSN's top search is Google.com? Pretty sure they both were for awhile.

I have my browser start blank, and tend to do that to other people when I install; homepage will be the Firefox homepage on Google (even if they're using IE because of the money referral thing). No need to have a search homepage if oyu've got a search bar, right? Plus it teaches people to look up.

[the-ninja-style.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I want to shoot those people. It's the only time I wish I could physically be there and not on the phone.
My cable company has it's on yahoo/google like home page and when a tech installs our service he asks you if you want to change your home page to ours. People say, "Yes." when they really mean, "No." So he changes it, and then they call to get it changed back.
OR they say "No." when what they really mean is, "Yes." Because you can check your email from that page (Duh) and that's what they want to do. So you start with, "OK in the address bar..."
And they say, "I don't have an address bar."
*KILL*
That is when you put them on mute, get a co-worker to buy you a bottle of water and some chips, and bunker down for the long haul because you aren't going anywhere for the next hour.

[afreak2600.livejournal.com]

The thing that agitates me more is how Internet Explorer 7 no longer has the File menu up at top. Thanks to Microsoft, my job is just a bit more tougher.

[ateji.livejournal.com]

...this is why auto-set homepage sucks. And why I change mine to blank on every machine I use regularly.

[atomic-roses.livejournal.com]

And don't even get me started on the morons who type into the MSN search box because it's their homepage. GAH!

OMG! I got one of those just last week o.0

[mariasama16.livejournal.com]

How about having people who do that (type every address into a search bar because it works) when you're trying to get them to a secured site that no search has as a result? Especially when said secured site is a method for them to view their paychecks online? I've gotten where I don't even twitch when they tell me they're getting search results instead of the proper page.

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

Two or three times a week, I get:

The home page needs to be fixed. The buttons and/or links are gone.

I remote in, they've fucked up IE tool bars. Home page is displayed fine. These folk I support are supposed to be some of the best in the world. My sympathies for those of you on AoL hell desk.