Posted by : Tom Doyle in (Internet & Computers, Online Marketing) 12th Dec, 2007
ISP intercepts Google
Lauren Weinstein noticed that Canada’s largest internet service provider Rogers, were hijacking Google, by placing it’s own content on the top of the search giants homepage.
Anyone visiting Google through a Rogers web connection was presented with a screen notifying the user of its current usage and additional usage pricing. To add injury to insult, the page was also branded with a Yahoo! logo.
To be honest, I’m surprised this has happened a lot before now and I’m actually really happy it hasn’t.
Rogers have announced that they are currently “experimenting” with this technique… more information