With a new generation of windows online products such as windows live and all the fancy things microsoft are trying to detract from google. Its a fair competition for once in the history of microsoft, in fact microsoft might even have the disadvantage, and thats why I wondering whether Im witnessing some dodgy practise going on.
In most browsers if no www. is typed in before an address it figures "you probably want a webpage at this address" so fills in the blanks on your behalf, but as I am tied to Internet Explorer at work there has been a strange thing happening.
When I type in an address without www. infront such as google.com it turns it into a windows live search and gives me the results, this maybe some underhand ploy to prop up the stats of windows search engine but I dont like it, the fact of the matter is, if I had wanted to search with windows live I would have gone to their website, in fact, just like I go to googles.
What so you think? is this an underhand business practise, or am I too much of a steve jobs disciple to admit Microsoft can do anything well?
(As a pre-empted response to the second comment, I use outlook everyday and think it is one of the best email programs I have ever used, and excel is genius when you get it doing the powerful stuff)
3 responses so far ↓
1 fitaloon // Dec 3, 2007 at 1:08 pm
You can change this behaviour under tools/internet options/advanced/search from address bar and change to “just go to most likely site” or other of your choice. Of course firefox would sort this out!
2 Liam // Dec 3, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Great Thanks for the tip, and from a local too, thanks for checking in on my blog.
3 Sam // Dec 5, 2007 at 11:57 pm
Steve Job’s Disciple!
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