I’ve always wanted to register naaacp.org
Might be fun.
national automobile associationg for the advancement of chevy pickups
What was the link to your old site?
Just kidding Coldie.
I whoosed myself with a typo once. I told someone my e-mail addy was at “Hotmale”. I totally missed it until she came back with “You’re kidding”. Paging Dr. Freud!
Sounds like the Anti-Excite. I think Excite.com made a sinister deal with advertisers that allows your Search Terms to appear as part of the Description. The last straw for me was when I was looking for information on the writer, “Philip K. Dick.” My terms— “Philip K. Dick.” The first URL that was returned was for a gay porn site, and the description was
If you happened to be looking for “Miniscule Tattooed Dick”, the same site would be the first return, but it would say “The HOTTEST Miniscule Tattooed Dick Pics on the Internet!” in order to mislead people into thinking that the site caters to their specific niche. Why look further?
There oughtta be a law.
Think of all the people redirected to a porn site-- Because they were looking for[list][li]Andy Dick[]Spotted Dick[]Fun with Dick and Jane[]Dick Tracy[]…Or any number of thousands of other innocent Dicks?[/li][/quote]
I’m also apologizing. Sorry Coldfire, won’t happen again.
(runs to the corner and crawls into a ball and cries)
This is my first time being chastised here. I feel naughty.
dead0man
Somehow, I don’t think Dick Nixon stands a chance here.
But I like the idea of the HOTTEST Dick Nixon Pics on the Internet!
Ugh, I know how THIS goes… About a year ago, I was having trouble with a game, so I went to the much vaunted www.gamefaqs.com . Little did I know that I mistyped it as www.gamefaq.com , and got directed to a wonderful pornography site. How fun!
(Note to mods: The domain name has since been re-registered by www.gamefaqs.com , and is not longer obscene. Unless you find cheating obscene.)
Some of those freaks are capitalizing on the … uh, what do you call it? I mean the “.com” part – the designation?
When I’m searching for a large company I used to try the obvious “LargeCompany.com”, which usually works. I tried looking up a huge Canadian hardware store and typed “.ca” after the company name, and was rewarded with at least 7 pop-up screens of the most revolting porn I’ve ever seen. Naturally this happened at work; I was frantically closing browers as new ones opened, cursing all the while and waiting for someone to notice that I had women fellating donkeys on my screen.
Now I do what Zette does – search through a reputable engine, which takes a few moments longer but is far less stressful.
It’s not just individuals that fall foul of this. Ernst & Young (global Big Five professional services firm) ran an educational website for students, and didn’t renew one of the domain names – either .org or .net, can’t remember which – and an enterprising Armenian fella has re-registered it as a redirect to “Euro Teen Sluts”.