02-28-2007, 11:43 AM
Quote:Assume for a second that you're among the almost 80% of people that use Internet Explorer to surf the web. You're looking for Lexus Financial Services. You know that their actual domain name is LexusFinancial.com. But for some reason you enter Lexus-Financail.com into your browser bar - and you're in good company, because millions of people mistype domain names every day...
As the domain Lexus-Financail.com doesn't actually exist, Internet Explorer in its default configuration sends you to Live Search, which offers you two related terms: Lexus Financial and Lexus Financial Services...
If you click on either of these links, you're taken to a Live Search Results Page filled with PPC (pay per click) ads...
full article: http://www.dailydomainer.com/200784-micr...lions.html
Quote:Today, if you use EarthLink internet access, when you mis-type the URL of the web site you were trying to find, or if the site no longer exists...
Last week EarthLink started rolling out a new system for handling certain specific types of browser errors on our network. You'll only see it in the fourth case listed above. It serves you a page with suggestions for what site you might have been looking for, along with the ability to search using Yahoo. It also has an ad on it. We think that for the vast majority of users who end up in bucket "d", this is a better experience because it helps them to get where they are going quicker, and doesn't leave them with a dead end. In addition, EarthLink will generate revenue from the page.
full article: http://blogs.earthlink.net/2006/08/handl...ains_1.php