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#1 Wednesday June 20th 2007 3:34:03 pm
Charter redirects you to thier Yahoo search.........
Early this year Network Solutions tried a system that helped them get more income. When an URL that Network Solutions could not be found was typed they would intercept the 404 error and deliver thier advertising pages insted. This was challanged by some anti-spam companies and Network Solutions was forced to stop this practice.
A few weeks ago I noticed that Charter started to intercept 404 errors. Put in an URL that isn't registered and you get a Yahoo search, the links on the page are heavy on the sponsored advertisements. You will get 10 sponsored results followed by 5 regular search results. Try an URL with a string of words followed by .com or .tv and see what you get.
Naturaly, if you like link farms you might want to advertise on this system.
Do the other local ISPs do this?
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#2 Wednesday June 20th 2007 8:33:24 pm
- BlueBandit
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Re: Charter redirects you to thier Yahoo search.........
There was a company doing that with the entire domain block of Cameroon's domain extension ".cm". I imagine it was fabulously profitable.
Shady, but clever.
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#3 Wednesday June 20th 2007 10:46:56 pm
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Re: Charter redirects you to thier Yahoo search.........
That's why there is nothing going on to stop spyware, malware, scumware, etc, that's where the money is. Dell, HP, Google, Microsoft, etc, they are all involved, screw the people, make corps money!
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#4 Saturday June 23rd 2007 1:55:18 pm
Re: Charter redirects you to thier Yahoo search.........
Dell, like many manufacturers, gets money from other companies to put their product on Dell PCs. Dell admitted that the Linux or FreeDOS PCs are more expensive then the Windows PCs for that reason.
The anti-virus that came with my new PC was good for only 2 months.
Does Windows Genuine Spyware come installed with Vista?
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