I rarely to never use the URL Location bar to open a site - if I know the
URL I use CTRL-O and either type or copy/paste the URL there. I don't like
the fact the every time you type a URL in the Location bar it saves a list.
Also, the CTRL-O is more forgiving, sometimes not requiring the www.
'prefix'.
If I don't know the exact URL, I will use Altavista with a "title:..."
search, and usually find several sites besides the one I was looking for
that are useful.
David Leone
Librarian
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, PLLC
511 Union Street, Suite 2100
Nashville, Tennessee 37219
Phone: 615-244-6380
Fax: 615-244-6804
Email: dleone@wallerlaw.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: T. R. Halvorson [mailto:pastel@btigate.com]
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 12:22 PM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Alexa: How People Search the Web
An example excerpted from Alexa study published February 14, 2001.
"Rather than entering a uniform resource locator ("URL") into the address
field of their Web browsers, millions of Internet users enter the name of
the site they want into the search box of their homepage or other search
engine."
http://www.alexaresearch.com/clientdir/news/report.php?id=23
T. R. Halvorson
LexNotes
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Author of:
Law of the Super Searchers: The Online Secrets of Top Legal Researchers
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