app for the web was and is search engines. These days I know a lot of people whose home page is Google, and who have no idea what the difference is between the Google search box and the browser address box.
Hi John.
I don't think it's quite like that... yet.
The existence of typo-squatting as a profitable endeavour provides at least some evidence that some significant component of the Internet still uses the address bar.
Ah, but type a word or two into the IE7 or Firefox address bar and if they don't resolve as a domain name, guess what happens -- the browser passes them to your favorite search engine. People really don't know the difference, and the browsers encourage that confusion. Hence the typosquatting basically steals a name out from what should have been a search that would offer spelling corrections. R's, John