sitefinder.verisign.com Alternative


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Are there any alternatives to sitefinder.verisign.com? I remember Microsoft used to have something, what ever happened to it? Is there some why I can set my Internet Explorer up to use it instead of a pointless "The page cannot be displayed" page.

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yeah microsoft used to have one for IE. it was really annoying for me... if i typed a url wrong, and was fixing it while the non-existant page loaded it would auto drop my cursor to their search field and i would finish typing the url there.

:crazy:

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it should still be there... :huh:

if you install google toolbar, or set google as your default search engine, isntead of getting msn search thingie you'll get google+your search term..

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Yea, that's what I get right now, a Google page yet I uninstalled Google bar a while ago. The Google page isn't very helpful though, it doesn't suggest alternative URLs it just searches for the one that obviously isn't spelled correctly. So how can I get the MSN page back? I imagine it would have something to do with one or more of these keys in the registry;

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Start Page"="about:blank"
"Search Bar"="http://www.google.com/ie"
"Use Custom Search URL"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl]
"provider"="gogl"
@="http://www.google.com/keyword/%s"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search]
"SearchAssistant"="http://www.google.com/ie"
"CustomizeSearch"="http://ie.search.msn.com/{SUB_RFC1766}/srchasst/srchcust.htm"

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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Search Page"="http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&ar=iesearch"

i don't have "search bar" or "use custom search url" entries

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl]
"provider"=""

provider is empty and no other keys there

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search]
"CustomizeSearch"="http://ie.search.msn.com/{SUB_RFC1766}/srchasst/srchcust.htm"
"SearchAssistant"="http://ie.search.msn.com/{SUB_RFC1766}/srchasst/srchasst.htm"

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