The web lingo is far from obvious

Some people frown at other people, who actually fell for the iscams I’m publishing here. Now, you should always remember that things aren’t obvoious. Even though almost everyone use the internet today, they might not have a firm grasp of what they are actually doing.

Here’s an example, where a Google employee went out with a video camera on Times Square to ask people two questions

  1. Do they know what a browser is?
  2. Have they heard about Google’s Chrome browser?

Here’s the result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ

Less than 8% new what a browser is! Imagine how few had a grasp on Google Chrome… And now they are using the same name for an operating system…

Via Seth’s Blog.