[IP] Verizon Overrides Internet Searches With Its Own Results

[Gregory Hicks <ghicks () cadence com>]

Shades of Verisign all over again...  when will they learn?

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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
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Subject: [IP] Verizon Overrides Internet Searches With Its Own Results
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 22:07:11 -0400



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From: "Gene Gaines" <gene.gaines () gainesgroup com>
Date: November 3, 2007 5:22:49 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Verizon Overrides Internet Searches With Its Own Results

The blindness born of monopoly has not bounds, even after the monopoly
is lost, witness this story on Verizon killing the carrier's argument
against net neutrality ...
Gene Gaines


Verizon Overrides Internet Searches With Its Own Results
Web search "tinkering" raises net neutrality concerns

by Martin H. Bosworth
ConsumerAffairs.Com

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/11/verizon_search.html

November 3, 2007

Subscribers to Verizon's high-powered fiber-optic Internet service
(FiOS) are reporting that when they mistype a Web site address, they
get redirected to Verizon's own search engine page -- even if they
don't have Verizon's search page set as their default.

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