Posted by Antonio Forza on 03/09/06 17:07

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:38:52 +1300, "Nik Coughlin" <nrkn.com@gmail.com>
wrote:

>windandwaves 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'.
>>
>> Yep, I worked that out. Fascinating!
>
>To be pedantic, w3.org is the top site for 'http'. Microsoft is the top
>site for 'http://http://'

I just googled http and Microsoft came up first.

When I put http://http://whateveryouwanthere in the address bar in
Fireforx I was redirected to Microsoft. But when I put it in the
address bar of IE I got a 404.

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