ICSI in The Daily Californian
"Research Finds Some Internet Service Providers Hijack Searches"
August 10, 2011 | Jonathan Tam, The Daily Californian
excerpt:
Some Internet Service Providers who work with third-party proxy servers may be redirecting and possibly hijacking their users’ search queries, according to a blog posted last Thursday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which worked in collaboration with UC Berkeley-affiliated researchers. Researchers at the International Computer Science Institute, a campus-affiliated institute, began their work over two years ago and discovered that some service providers routed brand-related term searches in the search engines Yahoo!, Bing and Google to brand websites instead of the intended search engine results.
article-date:
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
recap:
A series of articles on evidence collected by Netalyzr that shows some Internet service providers may be receiving money to redirect users’ Internet searches through third-party companies and to large retailers such as Apple and Safeway.