Apparently a goodly number of people aren’t quite sure how you use a Web browser to navigate to a Web site without first going through a search engine.
Hitwise has released its annual list of the top 10 searched on terms for the year, and somehow people still seem to think they need to go through a search engine to even get to Web sites they already know the address for.
As you can see in the graph below from Hitwise comparing 2008 to 2009, many things haven’t changed much in the past year beyond the top social network changing from MySpace in 2008 to Facebook in 2009. Seeing as Facebook was #10 in 2008, that’s fairly impressive.
What I find interesting is when people search for a domain name with its extension, i.e. MySpace.com. All one needs to do is go to the address bar of their browser and enter the Web address to get there, but for some reason a considerable number of users out there insist on going to a search engine first. Why, I doubt anyone knows, but we’re here to tell you that you can save a step if you want.
