Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:34:16 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: Redirection in websites Message-ID: <20171013133416.d9f29e7e9dd287a0ee655e43@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20171013114303.3a1f17da.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAJ5UdcP5aPjY%2BAUpTzTM7kP_W0AYZEcdLRGAhVot5zYw7AzU0Q@mail.gmail.com> <20171013114303.3a1f17da.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:43:03 +0200 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:43:05 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > Something strange is going on when I try to visit a website. I type > > www.duckduckgo.com in the address bar, and instead of getting > > duckduckgo, I see google. I do the same but visting www.yandex.com, > > and I get google.com. > > Interestingly, I have seen this strange behaviour on tablets > and on smartphones (in their respective web browsers); it also > happens when you enter an IP, for example 192.168.100.1 (to > connect to a Fritz!Box) - and you get Google search results. > This must be some "helpful modern setting"... A common arrangement these days is that the URL bar is also a search box which will often return the first hit as a page but not always (the algorithm is not clear to me). Giving a full URL complete with the http:// goes direct everything else is search assisted. > > Some of my friends say that it is a conspiracy, 1984 by George Orwell is > > happening. > > It's happening all the time, and nobody cares. Most browsers let you change the search engine used in the URL bar (some are stubborn), I have mine set to startpage. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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