Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
There's also the case where hotmail is unreachable for whatever reason, and IE stupidly passes it to a search engine right away. If the default search engine was non-default (MSN), then perhaps this could explain a number of the false hits as well.Paul Gordon wrote:4.4 MILLION monthly searches for "hotmail.com" on Overture's SE tend toNot only is that a staggering indication of stupidity, as you suggest -- my guess is that most of those people have some search window and just type the URL into the wrong place -- but 4.4 million searches probably indicates about 100,000 people.
suggest that your statement is a generalisation.
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/?term=hotmail.com
Besides -- who uses Overture, whatever that is, unless it's rebadged for them by their ISP?
I haven't tracked it down yet, but for some stupid reason one of my computers refuses to access hotmail with IE. Default settings across the board, but hotmail gives the same error as a domain with valid DNS, but no webserver. Mozilla works fine, nothing in HOSTS, all that.
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