What do people type in the address bar?

[Drewbert]

http://www.chrisfinke.com/2011/07/25/what-do-people-type-in-the-address-bar/

an analysis of 7.5mm location bar inputs.

Note the comments...

"There are a handful of entries showing people typing in Unicode, like ".ψομ". Not a statistically significant amount, but still some."

[alpha]

"There are a handful of entries showing people typing in Unicode, like ".ψομ". Not a statistically significant amount, but still some."

nice. he needs to release that data so we can have a nose through it

[squirrel]

I guess his data is mostly english given the source: url fixer browser add-on

[jose]

I saw that post getting popular but then I wondered where the data is coming from. Do you think the universe he uses is representative of anything?

[Drewbert]

Ask him what the geographical spread of his source data is.

[mdw]

didn't see a breakdown for how much was pr0n-related

also interesting that his browser plugin considered .CO to be a typo of .COM

[Drewbert]

nice. he needs to release that data so we can have a nose through it

"John - I'll contact you privately about access to the full data set."