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Goobster
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Typing Yahoo in my web address bar and getting an M in front?
Can anyone type this for me? When I type in yahoo, when the website comes up, I keep getting an M in front of the www.
ANyone else get this?
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Posted 1/6/10 4:26 PM  |
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trnity44
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Re: Typing Yahoo in my web address bar and getting an M in front?
I just did it and got the M too. Weird! I've never seen that before! 
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| Posted 1/6/10 4:28 PM |
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Goobster
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Re: Typing Yahoo in my web address bar and getting an M in front?
Posted by trnity44
I just did it and got the M too. Weird! I've never seen that before!
Ok so its not just me
Do you think that has to do with their new page? Or meaning MY yahoo?
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| Posted 1/6/10 4:29 PM |
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leighla
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Re: Typing Yahoo in my web address bar and getting an M in front?
Great question! We're all concerned about web page spoofing. Rest assured, the URL "m.www.yahoo.com" is a valid link to a new version of the Yahoo! homepage. The "m" will be removed from the URL sometime in mid-December.
Until then, if you manually enter a URL to access a different website, make sure to not to include the "m" before "www" or you will get an error message that the page cannot be displayed. When adding a URL to your browser favorites or bookmarks, the letter "m" should be left off as well.
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| Posted 1/6/10 4:30 PM |
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Goobster
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Re: Typing Yahoo in my web address bar and getting an M in front?
Posted by leighla
Great question! We're all concerned about web page spoofing. Rest assured, the URL "m.www.yahoo.com" is a valid link to a new version of the Yahoo! homepage. The "m" will be removed from the URL sometime in mid-December.
Until then, if you manually enter a URL to access a different website, make sure to not to include the "m" before "www" or you will get an error message that the page cannot be displayed. When adding a URL to your browser favorites or bookmarks, the letter "m" should be left off as well.
Did you cut and paste this or type this? I was worried about a virus or web page hijack, etc.
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| Posted 1/6/10 4:31 PM |
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GoldenRod
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Re: Typing Yahoo in my web address bar and getting an M in front?
www is optional. Anything before the "yahoo.com" is optional, and often depends on how the company separates it's servers. They have a whole series of servers, and they are just organizing them with letters, apparently. Many sites have letters and/or numbers before the www, or instead of the www.
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| Posted 1/6/10 4:31 PM |
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leighla
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Re: Typing Yahoo in my web address bar and getting an M in front?
Posted by Goobster
Did you cut and paste this or type this? I was worried about a virus or web page hijack, etc.
I cut and pasted it from the Yahoo answers site.
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| Posted 1/6/10 4:32 PM |
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klingklang77
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Re: Typing Yahoo in my web address bar and getting an M in front?
I have had that for a while. I thought that was for closer servers. I'm outside of the US, so I thought it was to make a quicker connection.
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| Posted 1/6/10 5:25 PM |
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