text: i enter a url on my desktop and it is redirected to a yahoo search page. why? and how do i get rid of this re?   when you type in a url that is either wrong or mispelled, it automatically directs you to a search page.  different search pages include yahoo, msn, dell, etc.  you can't "get rid of it" unless you have the correct url.  check the spelling and try again or google it.