I’m pretty quick on the keyboard but I have frequent typos as my hands slip and hit the wrong key or hit two keys instead of one. This annoying problem has led me to one of Charter’s more deceitful ways of bringing in a few extra bucks. I had accidentally typed google.comn into my URL path and instead of getting Firefox’s “Page not found” error I was presented with the following:

Charter has decided to use their DNS to redirect to their own custom search results. Not only does the listed “Sponsored Results” take up 1/3 of the page but Google isn’t even the first of their “Web Results” links. Even though it says the results are powered by Yahoo they are clearly adding their own links into the results. I just picture my Grandma trying to type in a web site address and being brought to deceptive search results like this.

Shame on you Charter. I’ll be changing my DNS provider now.