[93750] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: today's Wash Post Business section
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Lewis)
Wed Dec 20 22:49:07 2006
In-Reply-To: <458A000A.7010608@thomasleavitt.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:48:06 -0500
To: Thomas Leavitt <thomas@thomasleavitt.org>
From: Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz>
Cc: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>,
Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 19:31 -0800 12/20/06, Thomas Leavitt wrote:
>Many people don't understand anything about how they access the Internet, they
>have a vague idea that they need to type a domain name into a box somewhere...
>so they type www.myspace.com into the Google search box, the result set pops
>up, and then they click on the first result to get to the web site in
>question... I've seen it more than once.
>
>Thomas
Yeah, granted anyone looking for myspace might meet that demographic,
but how many neophytes would use Google for a "IP Who Is" "search"?
That's the listing I thought odd.
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