I’m by no means a supporter of Microsoft, but most search engines don’t redirect users to a company’s website just by entering their name as the search query. It’s not ‘intercepting’ anything, just adding a search widget to the results page.
Intercept isn’t the right word, but what they are doing is shady. The Bing search result for “Google” has results pushed down until they are nearly off the screen. They place what looks like a Google doodle (exploiting the fact that Google replaces their logo all the time) and a search box in the middle of the screen. It tricks the inattentive user into thinking it did what they meant for it to do, while still keeping them in Bingland.
The problem from a user interface perspective is that the search bar and the url are the same field. I don’t have edge, but what happens if they type “Google” into the url bar vs “Google.com” vs “https://google.com”/.
I have this problem at home when I try to go to a device on my lan, like how “http://jellyfin.lan”/ works but “Jellyfin.lan” takes me to a search page.
I’m by no means a supporter of Microsoft, but most search engines don’t redirect users to a company’s website just by entering their name as the search query. It’s not ‘intercepting’ anything, just adding a search widget to the results page.
Intercept isn’t the right word, but what they are doing is shady. The Bing search result for “Google” has results pushed down until they are nearly off the screen. They place what looks like a Google doodle (exploiting the fact that Google replaces their logo all the time) and a search box in the middle of the screen. It tricks the inattentive user into thinking it did what they meant for it to do, while still keeping them in Bingland.
The problem from a user interface perspective is that the search bar and the url are the same field. I don’t have edge, but what happens if they type “Google” into the url bar vs “Google.com” vs “https://google.com”/.
I have this problem at home when I try to go to a device on my lan, like how “http://jellyfin.lan”/ works but “Jellyfin.lan” takes me to a search page.
You can just add a trailing slash and most browsers will interpret it as an address.
‘jellyfin.lan/‘