Comments on: direct-gov-uk-taxdisc

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:06:32 +0000

@Len Perhaps you should try visiting the actual DVLA site…

By: Len Lewis

Len Lewis — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:30:02 +0000

You are totally pathetic. The number of options
is quite ridiculous and still I am unable to get to the department I require

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:08:23 +0000

Really? I cannot get rid of them! I take it you haven’t hacked your browser or the toolbar to prevent them showing up? So, if you begin typing http://www.a (or any other letter) Google doesn’t fill the toolbar search box with http://www.amazon.com etc as a first likely hit you’re after?

Maybe it’s not rolled out to your data centre yet…if that’s the case, it’s only a matter of time…

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:40:13 +0000

I don’t see any auto-suggest in Google.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:43:03 +0000

LOL Thanks Jon. Patrick Altoft has quite a lot to say about www searches as does Google, which has a whole alphabet of suggested URLs based on which are the most likely people will be searching for when they begin to type http://www.a…. into the search box. There’s a whole SEO industry behind this kind of thing, which I’ve touched on here before…think utube.com for instance…

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:41:17 +0000

It’s a shame that people less experienced with using the internet and search engines are still trying to recall domain names – www and all – when it’s far easier and quicker to do a quick search for a few keywords. A lot of advertisements these days don’t even include web addresses as they’re seen as a little pointless – just a quick note to “Google Company X”.

Of course with Firefox’s AwesomeBar and other incarnations of the same thing, most people won’t even do that for their daily browsing – if I type “sci” into my AwesomBar the second hit is this site. Don’t worry David – the first is sciencebase