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by 1oooqooq 651 days ago
Before it, typing "hawaii Hotels" on the addresa bar and pressing enter would generate a dns search... Verizon et al woule intercept and send you to THEIR search engine.

It's the main reason google google pushed httpdns and chrome. So you go to google.com. google current money cow is literally AOL keywords.