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The Web's once common "page not found" errors are themselves going missing, stripped from recent versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer in favor of a search tool provided by--you guessed it--Microsoft.
I'm getting steady traffic from this, both on the DNSERROR and straight use of autosearch.
Now, Yahoo and MSN are squabbling over which one has the most search traffic and this IE "feature" is in the spotlight once again.
Microsoft says that MSN Search is beating Yahoo! in the contest for the title of top search engine. Yahoo! immediately challenged the report, contending that MSN controlled the outcome.Yahoo! was quick to point out that a high number of MSN search queries are what it calls "involuntary." Yahoo! argues that those searches come when people misspell or type in a nonexistent domain name in the address bar of Internet Explorer.
Users are automatically redirected to the MSN search engine in certain cases -- a feature that Yahoo! contends was added to Internet Explorer last month to boost MSN's traffic numbers. article [newsfactor.com]
Heh, heh! Whatever! All I can say is that I like it.
That sounds about right for me. I have top 3 position in MSN and google.yahoo, so they're about equal on that score. The directory categories in Yahoo are such a mess and so huge that I can't imagine anyone finding my listing(s) that way.
No, after taking a closer look, make that 3-1.
