Google Eliminating Domain extensions from Major Online Brands. Hate this.

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Look carefully - no .com or .org extensions. Just the brand name i.e wikipedia
Google, Bing - I find this annoying lol

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handrewrites said:
What are the potential negatives of this?
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Generally speaking, Google is not a huge fan of direct navigation and it's understandable since it's in their best interest to gradually convince the average Internet user to search more (by implementing changes like this one, by making Chrome more search-friendly and so on).

The negatives? IMO, users will be irritated if they take things too far. While I honestly doubt that a lot of Google users will switch to Bing after noticing that some URLs are no longer being displayed, I'm 99% sure that people would rape them if they'd try to let's say make it impossible for Chrome users to visit a site by typing in the URL.
 
Potentially bad for seo, if searchers decide they only want to click on sites from 'brand names'.
 
Looks awful.

Im guessing people favor the extensions over brands.. after 15yrs + of having the .com, .org or .net after the domain - people will assume theres something wrong.
Youll hear "Googles not working "
larrybn said:
Potentially bad for seo, if searchers decide they only want to click on sites from 'brand names'.
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I completely disagree, google has had much larger changes than this without much consumer backlash. They test them on a smaller percentage of users first to compare statistics.

Most people don't even know what extensions are, since they think google search is the address bar.
 
larrybn said:
I completely disagree, google has had much larger changes than this without much consumer backlash. They test them on a smaller percentage of users first to compare statistics.

Most people don't even know what extensions are, since they think google search is the address bar.
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lol, so true though.
 
i see that as just one step in the sequence of events to change how things work on the interwebs - but not for good :sigh:
 
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