[juggopop]

Does anyone know how to make google search for a page when you type in a domain and it doesn't exist? When I type in a domain name that doesn't exist I get sent to a crappy MSN page saying "try this" or "did you mean this" page... and I was wondering if any of you google experts know how to make it just go ahead and search google instead.

thanks for any ideas...

[Anonymous]

MSN???
Are you searching www.Google.com ? On Google, when I searched for www.not-really-a-domain-at-all.com I got 2 options:
If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link: www.not-really-a-domain-at-all.com
Find web pages that contain the term "www.not-really-a-domain-at-all.com" :
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=www.not-really-a-domain-at-all.com

If you want to know if that URL is mentioned elsewhere on the Internet, click on the Find web pages that contain the term "www.not-really-a-domain-at-all.com" option.

Or are you asking something else?

[juggopop]

thanks... but no... I was talking about typing "www.Not-A-Real-Domain.com" into the address bar of my IE. a long time ago, it use to just say 404 and leave the domain in the addressbar for me to make corrections for whatever I misspelled.... (still does it if I type "http://" in front of it.)

now it does this: http://auto.search.msn.com/results.asp?cfg=DNSERROR&v=1&FORM=DNSERR&q=www%2En ot%2Da%2Dreal%2Ddomain%2Ecom%2F

(and as you can see this is a comon problem... or the PR wouldn't be an 8... i wouldn't think)

basicly I was wondering if Google has the auto search option so I can set up my IE to make it go there instead.

[Anonymous]

MSN has PR10, so any subpages will habve high PR. It's not actual PR, it's just estimated PR. Like this page here. Google hasn't indexed it, because it's a new page, so Google assigns an estimated PR to it. Usually it goes like this:
Index = PR "X"
Directory page = PR "X"-1
Subdirectory = PR "X"-2

[juggopop]

ahh... got cha... nice to know...

however, do you know a page I can point my browser too that will auto search for incomplete urls? (on google)

[Anonymous]

Well, no, but it seems your browser is set to search MSN. MSN sucks. Change the default to Yahoo (Yahoo uses Google for search.)... I never search that why. My home page is set to Google. :lol:

[juggopop]

I never search that way. My home page is set to Google. :lol:

me too...

but I was just trying to fix a quirk that I hate when I mispell a domain I am typing in... :wink:

[Anonymous]

Oh, ok. I know a lot of people type things in their address bars. If I don't have it in my favorites, I just type in the URL in the Google toolbar search box. ...