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In Chrome and Firefox, if you lazily type "gmail" into the address bar rather than "gmail.com" then it will google it for you. I suspect it's rather common, I know I've done it a few times by accident.

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By default typing "gmail" in Chrome's omnibar it will autocomplete to "gmail.com" If you've ever typed it out before.

I have watched people google 'gmail' and ignoring the autocomplete, but clicking on the link that comes up in the search. At some point people were told "do it this way" and to change that would require a 30-minute handholding and de-education session.

I consider myself as an experienced internet and computer user, but sometime I simply write "gmail" and then click on the first link instead of writing the ".com". Go figure.

There really isn't a one-to-one mapping between quantity of experience and behavior exhibited.

I just type "mail." and it autocompletes to "mail.google.com".

EDIT: in fact, just typing "m" autocompletes to that...

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