278264 - Search terms or short names get ridiculous redirects

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[jcaesar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050113 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050113 Firefox/1.0+

If I type in a website's name (amazon, hotmail, ebay) without the www or .com,
Firefox goes there or takes me to a related page. Certain sites do not and go to
useless websites and timeout.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type "zwallet" in the address bar 
2. curse out loud
3. type "zwallet.com" in the address bar

Actual Results:  
instead of zwallet.com, I get sent to
http://www.searchenginelinks.co.uk/viewlink-1224.html which usually times out
and inserts it's own advertising frame.
If it doesn't time out, I have to close the ad frame (actually redirect to
http://www.zwallet.com).
Yes, I know it's the first site found on a google search, but that doesn't make
it right.


if I type in "google" I go to http://www.google.com/search?q=%s, which is NOT
the first search result for "google" on google

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

If you type in google you go to the search shortcut in the Quick Searches
bookmarks folder (and there are already bugs for making it better when you
didn't type google keyword keyword2). If you type zwallet and ctrl+enter you go
directly to www.zwallet.com. And whether or not you want to hear it, if you type
zwallet and hit enter, you go to Google's first result for zwallet. For most
people, for most things, if the thing they want most is their keyword with www.
and .com tacked on, that'll wind up as Google's first result anyway, and quite
often when it isn't, it's because the .com is held by a squatter or a spammer or
something else that's not as useful as the top result for the keyword. If you
have a specific instance like you have for zwallet, then just bookmark it,
right-click the bookmark and select properties, and add what you want to type
for it in the keyword field, but it's not a Firefox bug if you don't agree with
Google about the most useful result for a particular keyword.