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Virgin Media Advanced Search. /Really/ useful.

Here’s something you expected: Virgin Media have taken even more control away from you and will hijack a domain when a DNS entry doesn’t exist. Try to go to a domain that doesn’t exist, and rather than get Firefox’s error message or equivalent, Virgin Media will pretend it does exist and give some search results.

And, likely, some of them search results are paid for. I say ‘likely’ because they seem to remind themselves, just in case they forget:

So, really, this is a monetisation strategy rather than being anything useful. Let’s hope it doesn’t get more ‘I’m feeling lucky’ in the future, where we would be redirected without notice. I suppose we’re lucky, in a way

Click ‘What is this page?‘ and opt out.

Are there any ‘good’ ISP’s left? Actually, are there any Internet Service Providers left? I want an Internet provider who doesn’t even care what the WWW actually is, let alone interfere with it. Just pass the information along! It’s none of your business!

Oh, and Virgin Media, about that excessive usage complaint: It wasn’t malware, it was me.

• Domain Name Wire: Virgin Media Joins Typosquatting Club
• The Register: Virgin hijacks empty pages