I first noticed this tonight. If you have ever read anything I have written you will notice that I misspell quite a bit, and typo even worse.

I am in San Diego, and our ISP is Road Runner. Usually if I enter the wrong URL, then I will get a google suggestions of other url’s. I guess Road Runner figured out they were missing out on a gold mine.

When I typed in Google.co instead of Google.com I got the following result.

Then I tried it again, with the same result.

Then I tried entering Nike.ne just to see what happened, and again the same thing. I blew it up this time so it was more visible.

It says that it is powered by Yahoo Search, so there must be some kind of arrangement there.

It also has an opt in/ or out of this service button at the bottom.

That takes you to this screen that you can opt in or opt out of the service.

I will be opting out, but I doubt it will be found by most users.

I wonder if this is a response to Google’s replacing peoples 404 pages that are beyond the minimum size ( I believe only with a certain toolbar).

By the way, I was talking to SEO Pamela Lund today about this, and she asked me about regular 404’s within a domain. I realized I had not checked that yet, so I checked that tonight Feb. 25th. They appear o.k.

After creating the above image, I am just imagining how ridiculous it will look when actually in a wordpress page!

Anyone else seeing this?

What do you think?

dk