Comments on: Verizon Substituting Its Own Search Engine - Overriding Its Own Users Search Engine Preferences

By: david

david — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:23:59 +0000

Congrats Verizon, you’ve made platform independent spam. For a moment I thought Linux had failed me at keeping away malware. Bastards…

By: Skipernicus

Skipernicus — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:59:38 +0000

I completely hate this “service” that cripples the functionality of my brower. Without it, my browser automatically adds items like “.com”. With it, I am routed to Verizon (not really a) help page. And like you say, just try to disable it. Thw whole reason I am here it looking for a way to shut it down. I may have to find another provider.

By: Mo

Mo — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:48:20 +0000

I’m glad I’m not the only one. I’m just 5 miles south of the MA line in RI and just noticed this happening in the last 3-4 weeks. Very dissappointed! I’m surprised that good ol’ Gates & MS geek experts have allowed this to “slip” through their fingers. MS IE obvioulsy gives users the option to chose the search engine of preference, including from the address bar, however, and once again Verizon and a few other ISP’s have managed to cause, yet what I forsee to be just another legal issue waiting to happen in terms of disregarding MS software licensing and security agreements. As for searching from the address bar, my own personal choice of preference has been Google and Alta Vista, however, regardless of the MSIE option and settings, and because of Verizon’s so called “Advanced Websearch Assistance” feature, I am forced to use this pathetic feature, instead of MS given options. However, on a good note, I’ve set Google as my home page for IE and chose to no longer search from the address bar.

By: MATTM

MATTM — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:14:25 +0000

I have regular verizon DSL, I live in a rural area of Massachusetts. This started happening about 4 weeks ago for me, and it’s not just for mis-spellings - if you type google as a keyword in firefox
it brings you to http://wwwwz.websearch.verizon.net/search?qo=google&rn=XTGdWPmTxcTRrsn
my default search engine is google, and I run linux .
I am switching out my DNS servers today. I am pissed .
this is totally unacceptable

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:06:09 +0000

I was renting a house in OBX and it appears that Charter communications does the same thing. One could argue that a custom DNS error message would cut down on help desk calls from novice users.