TimeWarner/Yahoo! Blocking My Google Searches
shoemoney
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Searching this morning to try to fix a weird issue I am having and like always I type in what I am looking for into the firefox searchbox. Instantly I am redirected to a landing page that says it cant find www.google.com:
Now from here if I go to google.com its fine so they are just intercepting firefox to google searches.
This of course is powered by Yahoo! and then when I try to search I get like SIX(6) sponsored results before any organize stuff.
Now couple things could be happening.
1) It was a fluke... it happens
2) Someone thought hey lets block google searches in Nebraska nobody in Nebraska will tell.
Ill give it a bit and see how long they keep doing it for.
UPDATE 1 - 07:21
After a little more research I figured out what is going on. They are looking specifically for the client in the string.
If I do this: http://www.google.com/search?q=help&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a (which is the string from the searchbox in firefox).
I get redirected to the "we cant find google.com"
but if I change the client=somethingelse
Then it works fine.
I have also confirmed with other Lincoln nebraska users this is happening to them also.
UPDATE 2 - 09:00
Sometime between the 8 and 9 am CST they are no longer redirecting the search string.
Wonder who got bitched out =P
Now from here if I go to google.com its fine so they are just intercepting firefox to google searches.
This of course is powered by Yahoo! and then when I try to search I get like SIX(6) sponsored results before any organize stuff.
Now couple things could be happening.
1) It was a fluke... it happens
2) Someone thought hey lets block google searches in Nebraska nobody in Nebraska will tell.
Ill give it a bit and see how long they keep doing it for.
UPDATE 1 - 07:21
After a little more research I figured out what is going on. They are looking specifically for the client in the string.
If I do this: http://www.google.com/search?q=help&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a (which is the string from the searchbox in firefox).
I get redirected to the "we cant find google.com"
but if I change the client=somethingelse
Then it works fine.
I have also confirmed with other Lincoln nebraska users this is happening to them also.
UPDATE 2 - 09:00
Sometime between the 8 and 9 am CST they are no longer redirecting the search string.
Wonder who got bitched out =P