[LINK] and the web in the US election Re: Tanner eyes web 2.0 tools

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Kim Holburn wrote:
> We've discussed this before.  Entering a non-existant host name into  
> the address bar of most browsers causes the browser to do some kind of  
> search.  The classic is if you accidentally try and go to http:// 
> http://something .... hmmm  Doesn't work for me at the moment because  
> I'm using opendns (one of the downsides of opendns).  There is a way  
> you can change the address bar search engine firefox uses.

The point is, when I entered "barackobama.org",  Google responded with

> Did you mean: barackobama.com  
> Search Results
> 
>    1.
>       barackobama.org/
>       Similar pages
>    2.
>       Welcome to Obama for America
>       Official Website of Barack Obama 2008 Presidential Campaign.
>       www.barackobama.com/ - 4k - Cached - Similar pages

Marghanita



> 
> On 2008/Nov/05, at 6:53 AM, Kim Davies wrote:
> 
>> Quoting Marghanita da Cruz on Wednesday November 05, 2008:
>> |
>> | >> Curiously the candidates have used .com not .org domains.
>> | >
>> | Actually I entered barackobama.org and google suggested .com
>>
>> Why would Google suggest anything unless you are entering the domain
>> into a search engine rather than the address bar? It strikes me as
>> curious to be typing domain names into Google at all.
>>
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