The web commentary blog ReadWriteWeb wrote a blog post about how “Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login” which catapulted them to a top ranking for a Google search for “facebook login”, as seen below.
Hilarity ensued. Users started arriving at the ReadWriteWeb blog and commenting on it in their hundreds, complaining about “Facebook’s new look” and that they couldn’t log in. Because of Google, they were confusing Facebook with a blog featuring Facebook log-ins. Among the comments were:
“I HATE THE NEW FACEBOOK PAGE , IN FACT I HAVE STARTED TO VISIT IT LESS, BECAUSE IT IS A HASSLE”
The blog post now carries a health warning:
Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook.
The Lifehacker blog had a post recently, called “Top Google Searches Show We’re Clueless About The Address Bar” highlighting a list Google published about top search terms in Australia, showing that adding “.com” to most of the search terms would have taken users directly to the site they were searching for.
What a fascinating insight into how mainstream users navigate the web: Via Google.
