Sometimes you just have to accept that people are daft.
Not all people. I’m sure you’re not one of them, and neither am I.

But consider this, you want to go to Facebook. So you know Facebook exists, hell you’ve probably been there more times than you can remember, so why the hell would you search for it on Google, Yahoo or Bing?
I’ll tell you why some daft people do.

They joined this thing called the internet and installed some software onto their PC that was sent to them by their ISP.
This software installed a customised version of Internet Explorer, or it set IE to open the ISP’s home page as soon as the machine connects to the internet.
This page contains a search box.

The alternative is their “IT Consultant” who knows everything about computers, and is probably the bloke down the pubs next door neighbours brother in laws 12 year old kid, set their browser start page to Google, or Yahoo, or Bing. So that’s the first thing they see when they connect.

I’ve seen what happens next a number of times, and most recently while on the phone to a client it happened again.

Instead of typing facebook.com into the browser address bar, they type it into the search box.

“Why did you do that?”
“That’s what I always do” is the reply.
When I point out the error of their ways the usual response is that they thought it was the right thing to do, and had never noticed the address bar at the top of the browser.

Stuff like that artificially inflates these statistics. People aren’t really ‘searching’ for Facebook. They’re just not as clever as the rest of us.

Facebook is ‘most searched’ brand of 2010 – Digital Lifestyle – Macworld UK: “”

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