So Much for Net Neutrality

Verizon uses mistyped domains to redirect internet subscribers to their own search engine and advertisements. Such action raises the question of whether or not internet providers will also filter consumer results. Preferential results from internet providers is a major concern for supporters of net neutrality.

Verizon Overrides Internet Searches With Its Own Results
Web search "tinkering" raises net neutrality concerns
By: Martin H. Bosworth
ConsumerAffairs.Com
Nov. 3, 2007

Subscribers to Verizon's high-powered fiber-optic internet service (FiOS) are reporting that when they mistype a Web site address, they get redirected to Verizon's own search engine page -- even if they don't have Verizon's search page set as their default.
The change has been advertised by Verizon as a way to help users reach the site they were trying to get to, but some are concerned that it's done more to gain revenue from advertisements placed on the Verizon search site.
"It was the very first thing I noticed when Verizon finally got FiOS installed here the other day. Very annoying and hardly in the spirit of net neutrality, eh?," wrote one Webmaster World user, who originally had Google set as his default search engine....Although Verizon opposes net neutrality, it has also said repeatedly that it would not block content or favor its own offerings over rivals--although it now appears to be doing just that....
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/11/verizon_search.html