US ISPs 'hijacking' search engine queries

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Bing and Yahoo! search results are being 'hijacked' by some US ISPs, according to new research

The New Scientist reports that millions of US internet users are having their search-engine queries 'hijacked', and are being redirected to marketing companies and then appropriate retail websites. According to the article, evidence collected by the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, has revealed 165 affected search terms; these are words that are (or that are related to) high-profile brand-names, such as 'apple', 'dell' and 'safeway'.

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