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Old 10-07-2002, 12:32 AM   #1
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When you misstype a URL does it take u to MSN search?
I may do it about 3-10 times a day.. pisses me off, everything when I misstype it takes me to some gay ass MSN DNS Error page...why cant Microsoft just guess what i misstyped like the 0 in .c0m or something and help me out :c(
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Old 10-07-2002, 01:12 AM   #2
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how about fixing up your IE settings so it doesnt do it......


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Old 10-07-2002, 01:14 AM   #3
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Old 10-07-2002, 01:17 AM   #4
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Well today this happened to me twice allready:

typed www.google.com to the address bar and I was taken to MSN Search page where was link to www.google.com so I clicked it and it took me to google.com
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Old 10-07-2002, 01:19 AM   #5
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I made a post about this a while ago. Microsoft are skimming type in traffic. I have no doubt about it! The amount of times i've typed a url absolutely perfectly, and i've been taken to that page, are ridiculous!

You might notice, that sometimes it suggests a few other sites with similar domain names? Makes you wonder if those are PPC or something?
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Old 10-07-2002, 03:44 AM   #6
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I made a post about this a while ago. Microsoft are skimming type in traffic. I have no doubt about it! The amount of times i've typed a url absolutely perfectly, and i've been taken to that page, are ridiculous!

You might notice, that sometimes it suggests a few other sites with similar domain names? Makes you wonder if those are PPC or something?
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Old 10-07-2002, 03:55 AM   #7
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"The amount of times i've typed a url absolutely perfectly .."

.. same here! it all started after the xp SP1 update ...
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Old 10-07-2002, 04:16 AM   #8
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take off the "friendly" error messages in ie, stops the crappy ms 404 errors and such too...
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Old 10-07-2002, 07:53 AM   #9
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You laugh now. But wait till MS turns the skim-0-meter up to 95% and steal the internet from Al Gore! Then who'll be laughing?!
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Old 10-07-2002, 09:27 AM   #10
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I may do it about 3-10 times a day.. pisses me off, everything when I misstype it takes me to some gay ass MSN DNS Error page...why cant Microsoft just guess what i misstyped like the 0 in .c0m or something and help me out :c(
Im not sure if it helps but you can change this event. Instead of msn, you can direct traffic to other sites like Google or Yahoo.
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Old 10-07-2002, 09:48 PM   #11
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Resistance is futile.
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Old 10-07-2002, 09:52 PM   #12
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Never happened to me, but then again I hardly ever use IE.
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Old 10-07-2002, 09:54 PM   #13
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Tools: Internet Options: Advanced : Searching from the Address Bar : Do not search from the address bar

There is your fix.

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Old 10-07-2002, 10:04 PM   #14
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Tools: Internet Options: Advanced : Searching from the Address Bar : Do not search from the address bar

There is your fix.

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Old 10-07-2002, 10:06 PM   #15
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Easy solution, don't mistype urls?
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Old 10-07-2002, 10:08 PM   #16
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Easy solution, don't mistype urls?
It takes you to that page even when you correctly type a URL sometimes.

<i>Microsoft Skim-0-Page</i> ?
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Old 10-07-2002, 11:14 PM   #17
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Easy solution, don't mistype urls?
well i type a million words per minute o_0
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