Sitefinder II, the sequel...

Thu Jul 13 16:32:07 UTC 2006

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:48:55 EDT, "Patrick W. Gilmore" said:
> 
> On Jul 13, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Larry Smith wrote:
> 
> >> Is it?  If you type "fobar" and the domain does not exist, is it rude
> >> to return foobar?  Or is it helpful?
> >
> > Hmmm, while a "good" question - how about another example,
> > someone mistypes whitehouse.gov - do you return the "real"  
> > whitehouse.gov or
> > the whitehouse.com site ???
> 
> Note: "and the domain does not exist".  Whitehouse.gov absolutely  
> exists.

So... I enter "whitehorse.gov".  Who wins, the guy at 1600 Pennsylvania,
or the guy who's got whitehorse.com parked at GoDaddy?

I can see this as being *loads* of fun in combination with browsers
that auto-complete URLs for you (I know of at least one that will keep
auto-completing a typo in preference to what you *wanted*. Blech. ;)

"Where do you want to go today?" :)
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