2009/9/21 Kiran K Karthikeyan <[email protected]> > 2009/9/21 Giancarlo Livraghi <[email protected]> > > If I remember well, one of the threads in silk a while ago was about yahoo >> being up to some mischief. >> >> Here is another example. In a recent review of one of my books (in case >> anyone is interested... it's "The Power of Stupidity") there are links to my >> website. But one of them doesn't work - it goes to a totally unrelated yahoo >> page. >> >> I've checked the code in the original htlm file and, as far as I can see, >> it's correct. >> >> I've seen, here and there, over he years, other cases of such things >> happening, leading to all sorts of silly places. My ignoramus question to >> tech wizards is: how do they do it? >> > > Do you have yahoo toolbar or any other addon/plugin supplied by yahoo > installed on your browser? > > If so, disable that and see if it works fine. It seems to work fine for me. >
Nope. I see what the problem is. The url is malformed. It redirects to http://www/gandalf.it/stupid/book.htm instead of http://www.gandalf.it/stupid/book.htm The yahoo redirect is due to addon/plugin/toolbar you have installed. Either that or your default search engine is yahoo. Kiran
