Type "mnspeak," go to MNspeak, yes? Uh....

Type "mnspeak" into the Firefox browser and you get the popular local MNspeak site, right?

Not so fast: Firefox is typically configured to do a Google search when words not ending in ".com" (or similar) are typed into the address field.

And the first hit for "mnspeak" in Google is Fimoculous, the personal site of former MNspeak owner Rex Sorgatz. When I pointed this out to him, he responded as follows:

Huh. That's interesting.

If you don't put a ".com" at the end of something in the Firefox address bar, it automatically does a Google search for that word and takes you to the first result. I'm apparently the first result for the term "mnspeak":

http://www.google.com/search?q=mnspeak

-Rex

So is MNSpeak losing a lot of traffic this way? I haven't heard from the current management yet, but one Twitter user mused:

wondering how much traffic @fimoculous gets from firefox users like me who type in just the keyword mnspeak (no .com) and end up at his site...

Maybe MNspeak needs to tweak its SEO a bit?