Apr 30, 2004
The Disturbing W
Here I am casually browsing the intrawebnetdotcom. When I went to type a web address into the address bar in Firefox, by accident I typed just a W and hit enter and well, a virgin eye surprise is in store! Try it and be disgusted and frightened!
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What the hey? That works in FireFox but not in IE (Aiieee). How is that happening? The www.w.com domain doesn’t go there. A hidden trojan within FireFox? I’m gonna get to the bottom o’ this.
Apr 30th, 2004
I think I’ve got a clue. W is the first hit on Google. FireFox does a Google on unknown resolved domains and automatically displays them.
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/internet-keywords.html
I guess it pays to have a deep funding and spend it all on Google ads.
Apr 30th, 2004
A-HA! Good work! It was starting to really irritate me because typically I type W in the add bar, push down and select (which typically is my MovableType login page) and 2 out of 5 times I ended up there.
I think I’m losing a little love for Google.
Apr 30th, 2004
it uses the “i’m feeling lucky” function that google has…
i’m tired
May 3rd, 2004
But Benny! I just don’t feel so lucky when I get sent there!
May 4th, 2004
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