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(Unverified)Mar 25th 2008 9:54PM

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come on everybody... it wasn't that hard to figure out how this service works. Just type in the url name of the website you're looking for, without www. or http://.

So for example, to see if www.youtube.com is up, simply type "youtube" into the search box, NOT "www.youtube.com". Or, not test www.comcast.net just type "comcast.net"

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(Unverified)Mar 26th 2008 10:22AM

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Thanks for putting us on the right track. This looks useful once I understood not to put html:\\ in the query. In all fairness, that really should be documented on the page. It's not unreasonable behavior on the part of the user to include the protocol.

FYI: If you leave off the top level domain, the page assumes that it should be .com. Just something to be aware of.

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