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Article: VeriSign's Site Finder Sparks $100 Million Antitrust Lawsuit.
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- September 20, 2003
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By Aaron Davis, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 20--VeriSign has been slapped with a $100 million antitrust suit charging that it abused its power over Web traffic by launching a controversial search service earlier this week.
Mountain View-based VeriSign, keeper of the ".com" and ".net" master directories for the Internet, on Monday unveiled its Site Finder Web page. Millions of Web users who misspell or mistype address requests and previously were bounced to various error pages are now re-directed to Site Finder. The page offers up likely correct alternatives as well as search functions, browsing features, ...