[nycbug-talk] google wierdness

[Peter Wright]

>
> On May 16, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Peter Wright wrote:
>>
>> yea, i would expect google.com/bsd to work and google.com/mac to work.
>> for me on the left coast google.com/mac.html works while google.com/
>> mac
>> does not work.
>
> IMHO this has nothing to do with what coast you are on.
>
> Officially they have funny URLs for their different searches.
> http://www.google.com/options/specialsearches.html
>
> This page links to:
> http://www.google.com/unclesam
> http://www.google.com/linux
> http://www.google.com/bsd
> http://www.google.com/mac.html
> http://www.google.com/microsoft.html
>
> Why the weirdness with mac and microsoft searches?  I have no idea.
> They both work using their non ".html" counterparts.
>

well, in any event everything is working as expected now.  the reason i
suspected the coast was an issue was that i suspected the datacenter
closest to me (most likely san jose) was out of sync with the nyc data
center.

-pete



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