Comments on: Start-up adds shortcuts to Web browsing

Keyword-based browser shortcuts have been around for a while. OpenDNS says it has a better idea that also happens to be free.

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Why not just use Bookmarks? or Favorites?

Why not just use Bookmarks? or Favorites?

[MaxDay]

or use a commandline?

Yubnub or Sugarcodes.com already using shortcuts.

[c|net Reader]

Not the Same

With bookmarks/favorites, you have to navigate a growing list of such items and click on the one you want. With OpenDNS' service, you just type a word in the address bar. With FF, that means typing Ctrl-L, typing the keyword, and pressing Enter. With IE, that means typing Alt-D, typing the keyword, and pressing Enter.

BTW, I use OpenDNS for my systems at home. It works better than my ISP's DNS servers.

[David_Ulevitch]

Bookmarks aren't the same

Bookmarks aren't at all the same.

Here are a few reasons:

1) This works on multiple computers and browsers, without having to synchronize any bookmarks files.

2) This lets you do advanced things like "cnet <word>" which would let you search CNET.

3) Remembering even a long list of quick words that shortcut you where you want to go is often much easier than looking through a list of hundreds of saved bookmarks.

Helpful? I think so.

[Revolutn]

Horrible Idea!

I'm agahst that CNET is promoting this idea as something good.

First and foremost, this isn't anything new, duh hello it's called a HOST LIST, I can make any keyword I want on a given machine = any web site I want.

But in normal thinking, substituting or redirecting is considered a browser attack by most malware detection/prevention programs, because, DUH it is an attack of sorts.

Many viruses infect your system such that if you try to say go to www.symantec.com or www.mcafee.com etc etc you get sent to some other site.

You are advocating the mass adoption voluntarily of a system that undermines the Internet wide DNS system, without which, the internet could never have acheived the level of mass penetration and adoption that it has.

It causes me to wonder what kind of cross marketing agreement OpenDNS might have with CNET NEWS if not directly, through one of the other tenuous partnerships with major conglomerats.

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