Mediacom’s New Default Search Page
September 22, 2008 – 9:12 am
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Mediacom Communications, my ISP at home, recently decided to pull a fast one by redirecting all typos and searches in the address bar to a search results page of their own making. This unwanted act is supposedly to “help” customers “find what they are looking for”. Don’t most modern browsers already default to a major search engine if you happen to enter a typo or do a simple dot com-less search in the address bar? I bet so. No configuration needed.
The tech support guy at Mediacom said this move is for all the people who don’t already have this setup. Exactly what browser do these folks use? IE 4?
So naturally I chose to opt out. And the opt out link is conveniently located at the very bottom, small and greyed out.
The whole thing just smacks of greed. The ads on the right hand side of these results pages can only make Mediacom money, most likely at the expense of an Internet surfer finding relevant content.
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