# Redirection when I click on SDMB link **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 26, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redirection-when-i-click-on-sdmb-link/309956 "2005-06-26T22:03:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redirection-when-i-click-on-sdmb-link/309956/1 "2005-06-26T22:03:51Z")
I’ve noticed this happening for quite a while - a month, maybe - when I type B in the address bar and go to [Boards.straightdope.com](http://Boards.straightdope.com) and click the link. I get transfered - as in, it just opens this page instead - to a place called [http://www.btselem.org/English/index.asp](http://www.btselem.org/English/index.asp). I’ve run AD-Aware and Spybot and not gotten any untowards cookies, so I’ll have to ask you - what gives? [sub]Many apologies if this is a stupid question. Please - not the face![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redirection-when-i-click-on-sdmb-link/309956/2 "2005-06-26T22:05:30Z")
Doh! Sorry - should have said. I use Mozilla FireFox v1.04 as my browser. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redirection-when-i-click-on-sdmb-link/309956/3 "2005-06-26T22:11:36Z")
Sometime, the same thing happen with me, but at dumb terminals using IE. I think it is due to a slight downward shifting of the curser selecting that address. ---
**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redirection-when-i-click-on-sdmb-link/309956/4 "2005-06-26T22:20:11Z")
> [@Easybreath](#): > > Doh! Sorry - should have said. I use Mozilla FireFox v1.04 as my browser. Make life easy for yourself and set it as a default tab to open with. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redirection-when-i-click-on-sdmb-link/309956/5 "2005-06-27T11:08:31Z")
> [@Myglaren](#): > > Make life easy for yourself and set it as a default tab to open with. ::Would kiss Myglaren but gender unspecified so satisfies self with firm handshake:: Thanks - I’ll do that. [sub]Feel free to delete this now[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redirection-when-i-click-on-sdmb-link/309956/6 "2005-06-27T11:21:01Z")
> [@Easybreath](#): > > I’ve noticed this happening for quite a while - a month, maybe - when I type B in the address bar and go to [Boards.straightdope.com](http://Boards.straightdope.com) and click the link. I get transfered - as in, it just opens this page instead - to a place called [http://www.btselem.org/English/index.asp](http://www.btselem.org/English/index.asp). I’ve run AD-Aware and Spybot and not gotten any untowards cookies, so I’ll have to ask you - what gives?[/sub] It something you’re doing when typing in the address bar, you’re not selecting [boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com) from the drop down list, you’re actually telling Firefox to do a search on ‘b’ and take you to the first matching website. In google, for some reason, the top match for ‘b’ is that site. You sometimes find the same if you type in a bad URL. Firefox executes a search on “http://” which will take you to (as obviously the most linked site on the web) to [microsoft.com](http://microsoft.com). It’s weird if you don’t know why it’s happening.