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Rogers hijacked dns failures provides terrible search results

08/12/08

  05:13:46 am by wdawe, Categories: General, whine, web

There has been much written about Rogers hijacking the dns not found errors and putting up an ad laden page as a "customer service". The ads are bad enough but it also turns out that the search results are bad, and by bad I mean really, really bad. As a test I entered wdawe.org in my browser bar to see what they came up with. First result is wbdawe.com. Who coded this thing? Wouldn't it make sense to try a .com or a .net result?
wdawe
OK, let's try something a little easier, I entered wdawe.com into the search box and got.....
wdawe1
If I was Yahoo I'd be ashamed to have my name on these results.

Click on page two to see me pummel them some more.

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