{"id":617,"date":"2008-12-11T10:42:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T14:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=617"},"modified":"2008-12-11T10:47:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T14:47:43","slug":"avoid-typos-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"Avoid Typos, Google!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ahref =\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20081210.wgoogle10\/BNStory\/Technology\/home\">There was a short article in the Globe today about how people use Google. I was laughing a fair bit because this is <b>exactly<\/b> what Wayfare does all the time: rather than type in the address of the site she wants to go to, she Googles the web address. No bookmarks for her, no &#8220;messing up&#8221; her history bar by typing in something like &#8220;facebook.com&#8221; directly &#8212; she&#8217;d rather go to google, then search, then get to where she was actually trying to go. To be fair, it does help avoid typos and getting a website wrong (especially for Canadians, who are never quite sure if they want the .com or the .ca extension). And anyone who&#8217;s ever accidentally typed a misspelling of ebay and ended up on a disgusting gross-out site will probably be sworn off the using the URL field entirely.<\/ahref><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a short article in the Globe today about how people use Google. I was laughing a fair bit because this is exactly what Wayfare does all the time: rather than type in the address of the site she wants to go to, she Googles the web address. No bookmarks for her, no &#8220;messing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}