IE Search From Address Bar

[baxter.r]

Hi I am looking for information on how the search from address bar
feature works in Internet Explorer. I have a web site which for a
number of reasons may be moving real slow and causing timeouts on
clients browsers. When the browser times out I believe it is looking
for the most likely site and picks some random site that has nothing to
do with mine. What is the logic the IE uses to determine which site to
go to? Does it look for similarities in the page? Does it just do a
search on a search engine? Thanks in advance.

Ryan

 

[Rob ^_^]

Hi Baxter,

The reasons for client timeouts to your site has to do with routing and dns
configurations. Check out some tools for you to analyse this at
http://www.dnstools.com

There is a setting in IE for the default 404(Page not found) search which
passes the address bar url to your search provider.

Have a look at http://www.iecustomizer.com/iesearchdownload.htm for a full
listing of search settings for IE.

Regards.