I know what's happening, likely for newbies or uninitiated. folks are mistakenly treating the google.com text entry box as their browser location window.
sigh. Swerve http://Swerve.cOM > From: Paul Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 17:22:02 -0600 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: OpenSRS Live Reseller Update [.com/.net & .name] - 13/02/03 > > At 2:47 PM -0800 2/15/03, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: >> Ross Wm. Rader wrote: >> >>> Besides, the DNS is not a directory, it isn't an application, it isn't, it >>> isn't, it isn't. >>> >> It is, it is, it always has been. People remember company or >> organization names, not domains. When they're looking for the >> Shooblyboo Corporation, they don't Google for the company -- they try >> shooblyboo.com first. If that fails, then they go to a search engine. > > 4.4 MILLION monthly searches for "hotmail.com" on Overture's SE tend to > suggest that your statement is a generalisation. > > http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/?term=hotmail.com > > The question is, can we come up with some sort of moron ratio, knowing that > figure? > > -- > > Paul Gordon, IQ Management Corporation http://iqmc.com
