URL Trick – Type in the web site without the HTTP and .COM

Posted on March 31, 2007 at 1:16 pm

Ohh writing this post is quite embarrassing since I’m a computer person and have been doing it for years, but never seemed to learn the fact that you can simply type in the name of the web site and not have to type in the “www.” or “.com” part! Whoops! Well you can’t know everything right…

So if you’ve been doing it like me and typing “www.microsoft.com” to get to Microsoft’s web site (or any other web site), you don’t have to do that anymore! Simply type in Microsoft and press CNTRL+Enter. How simple!!! I always knew people would do this, but every time I tried it, I would press Enter only and it would do a MSN or Google search!

Another cool key combination is if you press Shift+Enter or CNTRL+Shift+Enter, which take you to the .net and .org domains automatically. The first keystroke, CNTRL+Enter also works in Firefox. What a time saver! Goodness, I can’t believe I just figured this out!

Source: http://www.dailycupoftech.com/2007/03/31/increase-your-gmail-productivity-and-url-tricks/

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One Response to “URL Trick – Type in the web site without the HTTP and .COM”

Steve said on : November 17th, 2008 at 4:15 pm

I think you already knew how to do this but i do appreciate you not rubbing it in our faces that your a IT genius. Very noble and humble of ya. Again, i love your site and keep up the good work, ive learned so much.