OT : Another Google thing..

First there was the rather useful "1kg to some other stupid weight
measurement" thing.

Now you can get word definitions too.

For instance, putting in "define twat" returns :

Web Definition: twat - a man who is a stupid incompetent fool

 

http://www.google.co.uk/options/index.html

....and for the more adventurous...

http://labs.google.com/

 

dwb wrote

Feeling contentious me, so:

and for biker?

 

I was quite surprised to find that www.google works as a valid url.

 

have you tried the google deskbar? I can't work out if it is a good
thing or not. That and the fact that I use the mouse a lot anyway (I
tend not to write stuff, just cut and paste between apps) means i
don't use it enough to have evaluated it.

 

It doesn't do biker. though biker is in dictionary .com so I find that
a tad odd.

 

You either have 'com' in your search order [1] or your browser is
filling in bits of URLs for you [2]

www.google is certainly not a valid URL. It's not even a valid hostname
(for the pendants on the group)

[1] Settings / Network / Interface / Internet Protocol / Properties /
Advanced / DNS / 'Append these DNS suffixes (in order)
When you enter a hostname, it appends each of these, in sequence,
and does a DNS query for the hostname that results until it finds
a match. If none return a positive result, it queries for the
hostname as you entered it. If that doesn't match, it either fails
or your browser takes you to some dodgy search page.

[2] Some browsers do the above process for you, assuming everything
is a .com

[3] A URI consists of a method, a hostname and a file path.
[http://] [www.google.com] [/]

 

Nope. To me, Google is a search engine rather than a way of life.

 

hah!

it's a *perfectly* valid hostname.

It's *not* a valid /Domain/

 

hah!

it's a *perfectly* valid domain

it's *not* a valid /FQDN/, according to ICANN's root servers.

 

"When geeks collide"

 

Yep , thats just it , I know it should never work.
I know that there isn't a top level domain by the name of google , and my
browser certainly isn't auto completing.

I suspect its some oddity caused by the DNS servers at work , but thats far
too technical a thought for this time on a friday.

I'll check out some of the possible causes mentioned when I can be arsed.
--
Alex
SRX 400

"I laugh in the face of danger"

"Then I hide until it goes away"

www.drzoidberg.co.uk

 

ok, I should have said it's not a valid *public* domain. It's
perfectly fine on a private DMZ or LAN.

Still, it's a valid hostname ;-)

 

Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote

Oh look a Meatloaf thread.

Shame I know bugger all about him really. Other than he puts on a
pretty good show.