[NBLUG/noise] aol users can be so clueless

[E Frank Ball]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:53:39PM -0700, Daniel Smith wrote:
} >aol users can be so clueless.  From my web logs:
} >
} >198.81.26.105 - - [11/Sep/2003:16:39:16 -0700] "HEAD 
} >/www.sonomashooting.org/ HTTP/1.0" 304 0
} >"http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/search?query=WWW.SONOMASHOOTING.ORG"
} >"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 8.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
} >
} >What's wrong with this search string?:
} >http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/search?query=WWW.SONOMASHOOTING.ORG
} >
} 
} There's nothing wrong with it.
} 
} They're running a search for pages that contain that string.
} Try it ...

Of course it will work, but why do they need a search engine if they
already know the full URL?

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   E Frank Ball                frankb@efball.com