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Posted by Jim Higson on 03/08/06 14:53
Jim Higson wrote:
> Benjamin Niemann wrote:
>
>> windandwaves wrote:
>>
>>> Why do we go to Microsoft when we enter
>>> http://http://whateveryouwanthere
>>
>> That's Firefox trying to be smart. I (correctly) recognizes your input as
>> 'not an URL'. It will then fire-up a google search for it and sends you
>> to the first hit.
>>
>> And for some reason MS is the top-site for 'http'.
>
> I don't know what's stranger, that the browser silently redirects to a
> Google search, or that Google's usually excellent indexing comes up with
> such a lousy result.
>
> At least they have this near the top:
> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/
>
> This is probably a bit like searching for 'PHP' - you sometimes get a load
> of pages that just have ".php" in the URL and are nothing to do with the
> language.
Heh. Also, Googling for "https" just brings up a load of high-ranked secure
pages!
--
Jim
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