<story><title>Burying the URL</title><url>http://www.allenpike.com/2014/burying-the-url/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greggman</author><text>This may be the reason I stop using Chrome even though I was a member of the team for 5 years.&lt;p&gt;I NEED TO EDIT URLs. I need to copy and paste URLs. It was already annoying enough with it&amp;#x27;s removing of the protocol because sometimes I make a typo, try to edit it and it messes up and removes the protocol forcing me to edit it a 3rd time only after it goes as searches for something.&lt;p&gt;Even as just a user I copy and paste URLs all day long. Into FB, into Twitter, into stackoverflow answers, into HN responses.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t even see how this is better for Google. Links make up pagerank no? Links are what Google uses to be the best search engine. How is making it harder for people to copy and paste URLs good for Google?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure I&amp;#x27;m in the minority as a semi-webdev but dammit, don&amp;#x27;t fix what isn&amp;#x27;t broken. Or at least give those of us with different use cases a way to get shit done without getting in our way. Sure, this may or may not be better for my grandma but it&amp;#x27;s not for me. I causes me frustration daily already. This is only going to make it anger inducing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drgath</author><text>&amp;gt; I NEED TO EDIT URLs.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m using Canary with this option enabled, and all you have to do is click the domain box, then you can freely view, edit, and copy the URL.&lt;p&gt;All this update does is hide the path portion of the URL.  That&amp;#x27;s it, so IMO, this story is way overblown.  Google isn&amp;#x27;t removing the URL bar, they&amp;#x27;re just acknowledging the fact that 99% of users don&amp;#x27;t need to see 99% of the URLs they visit on a daily basis.&lt;p&gt;Why do Hacker News readers need to see a URL that looks like this?
&lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7677031&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=7677031&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why do users looking at Amazon Fire&amp;#x27;s landing page need to see this?
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CX5P8FC/ref=amb_link_412650922_2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;amp;pf_rd_s=right-csm-1&amp;amp;pf_rd_r=0DAD51W7AATA6WG081BY&amp;amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;amp;pf_rd_p=1786695002&amp;amp;pf_rd_i=507846&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;gp&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;B00CX5P8FC&amp;#x2F;ref=amb_link_412...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why do EBay shoppers need to see this?
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ebay.com/itm/Garmin-nuvi-2555LMT-5-GPS-Navigation-System-with-Lifetime-Map-Traffic-Updates/310943209506?pt=GPS_Devices&amp;amp;hash=item4865a8d822&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ebay.com&amp;#x2F;itm&amp;#x2F;Garmin-nuvi-2555LMT-5-GPS-Navigation...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t.  Just trim it down to the domain and call it good.&lt;p&gt;Oh, and it&amp;#x27;s worth mentioning that to copy&amp;#x2F;paste URLs, it&amp;#x27;s still only one click away, because when you click the box, it auto-selects the entire URL.&lt;p&gt;Edit: As I review my post, in the context of this story I find it humorous that even Hacker News trims the URLs I pasted because of how obnoxious and unnecessary they are.</text></comment>
<story><title>Burying the URL</title><url>http://www.allenpike.com/2014/burying-the-url/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greggman</author><text>This may be the reason I stop using Chrome even though I was a member of the team for 5 years.&lt;p&gt;I NEED TO EDIT URLs. I need to copy and paste URLs. It was already annoying enough with it&amp;#x27;s removing of the protocol because sometimes I make a typo, try to edit it and it messes up and removes the protocol forcing me to edit it a 3rd time only after it goes as searches for something.&lt;p&gt;Even as just a user I copy and paste URLs all day long. Into FB, into Twitter, into stackoverflow answers, into HN responses.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t even see how this is better for Google. Links make up pagerank no? Links are what Google uses to be the best search engine. How is making it harder for people to copy and paste URLs good for Google?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure I&amp;#x27;m in the minority as a semi-webdev but dammit, don&amp;#x27;t fix what isn&amp;#x27;t broken. Or at least give those of us with different use cases a way to get shit done without getting in our way. Sure, this may or may not be better for my grandma but it&amp;#x27;s not for me. I causes me frustration daily already. This is only going to make it anger inducing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frozenport</author><text>Also gramma is gonna be sad when I give her a URL and she won&amp;#x27;t know where it goes.&lt;p&gt;It is not clear if they are dumbing the web down for users or just to get people onto Google search.</text></comment>