Advanced errors by Virgin Media

You don’t need to enter the extension of a popular domain on the URL bar on Firefox, just the domain name.

That is, if your broadband provider is not Virgin Media. If it is, then your browser will redirect to a URL like http://advancedsearch.virginmedia.com/assist.php?url=yourdomainname

I seems to be powered by Yahoo. It’s just a search results page. I think they called it advanced error. Well, an error it is, but quite a dumb one. If you enter ‘virginmedia’, the engine does not find… its own customer, Virgin Media.

You may spare yourself all that adverstising by disabling the feature at https://my.virginmedia.com/advancederrorsearch/settings