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Also, AOL Keywords.

• eli 13y ago
  And new.net, though I think that was basically malware. There were a lot of "DNS Alternatives" in the early 2000s.
  • swatkat 13y ago
    New.net was terrible. It used to inject DLL into IE, hijack Winsock LSP and whatnot!
    • eli 13y ago
      Yup, a bad idea implemented poorly.
• akurtzhs 13y ago
  Google Plus has the same deal now. Search for +Pepsi on Google and it takes you to Pepsi's Google Plus page. I'm certainly glad they stopped treating + as a search operator so we could get that feature in return.
  • MichaelGG 13y ago
    Any more info? I opened a private tab, went to Google.com, searched on +Pepsi and the results look like what I'd find for Pepsi.
    • akurtzhs 13y ago
      Really? Searching for Pepsi gives me www.pepsico.com, www.pepsi.com and the Pepsi wikipedia page as the top three results, while +Pepsi gives me Google Plus pages for Pepsi as the top three results. The name for this is Direct Connect, and they announced it in 2011. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-pages-connect-with-all-things.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-pages-connect-...