David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 6/12/2010 10:15 AM Michael A. Terrell spake thus:

PeterD wrote:

On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:35:28 -0700, David Nebenzahl
wrote:

On 6/11/2010 12:02 PM John Robertson spake thus:

David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 6/11/2010 10:57 AM John Robertson spake thus:
...

Details on the evening news @ http://www.youareaspamtwit04fools.com

If only.

More on-topic question: how is it that the above URL gets redirected to
"Look-up-results" (aka Yahoo!) when clicked upon? WTF?!?!?

http://www2.look-up-results.com/sear...9_a Ra-4G62FT

You must be using Yahoo as your search engine on your browser or news
reader. When I click on the invented link it just pops up "Can't find
it" type of message on FireFox...

Well, that's the odd thing: I don't use Yahoo! for anything (not
that I know of, anyhow), and yet it's somehow linked via my
browser. Goddamned Firefox: probably some default configuration
setting, buried in one a'them about:config settings somewhere
...

Firefox is linked (strategically) to Google, not Yahoo...

Really? Then why did I have to wander all through a local business
to change the default search engine from Yahoo to Google on every
install of Firefox?

Yes, why indeed?

In my installation, as I suspect with most "out-of-the-box" Firefoxii,
my default search engine *for the search field in the toolbar* is
Google, but obviously Yahoo! is invoked on some level by the browser as
well (in this case, for unreachable URLs and such). Why is a mystery to me.


Apparently, the default search provider for their ISP was Yahoo at
one time. A quick install of Firefox copies the defaults from IE, so
all their computers ended up with Yahoo. Earthlink uses Yahoo for
default, so if I have to access a website that only works with IE, Yahoo
Search will pop up, because errors on their DNS defaults to Yahoo
Search.


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