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EarthLink Establishes Their Own "Site Finder"
Guppy06 writes "Last week, instead of a regular DNS error, EarthLink's DNS servers started to return a redirect to earthlink-help.net, a site that bears a close resemblance to VeriSign's much-maligned Site Finder, to their subscribers. According to their official blog at Earthling, "By presenting users with contextual help based upon the non-existent domain the user entered, we believe we are improving the EarthLink user experience with a system that will not interfere with other network processes." Most of the responses in said blog posting aren't positive."
A best friend used to work in marketing for earthlink and told me about the users they brought in to test websites, systems, etc... I was absolutely horrified and now weep for the future.
That's why I have hated the move towards "user friendly" computers. All it does is slow down the GUI by adding bloat those of us who know what we are doing don't need! And it enables every retard with $400 for a crap dell box to get on our Internet and polute it with their stupidity! Think about it, spam wouldn't exist if it wasn't for all the stupid people we (the IT community) allowed onto our network. The 1% of people stupid enough to click on every spam ad they get makes it worth the effort for the spammers to keep plugging away. If we stopped catering to morons and forced people to actually learn a thing or two about computers before being allowed to own one and get on-line maybe the Internet wouldn't be degrading in quality of content like it is...