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B
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2 edits | Google To Amazon??
What the (!#)&(@##!~~% ?
I typed google.com into my Mozilla 1.6 bar, as I do about 3.5 million times each day (using autocomplete of course) and the Amazon Alexa page showed up!
The page source included:
html xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/xslt/java">
<head>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta content="Web search, Alexa, Google, Free download, Toolbar, Free software, Top 100,
*Related links, Search the web, Web site traffic, Web tool, Search tool, Web statistics,
*Wa
*yback Machine, Internet Archive, Archive, Traffic ranking, Editors picks, Missing link,
*In
*stant poll, Reviews, Web site reviews, Rankings, Top 500, Movers and shakers, People als
*o
*visit" name="keywords">
<meta content="Alexa web search -- a new kind of search engine. With traffic rankings, us
*er reviews and other information about sites, Alexa is a web site discovery tool. Alexa
* w
*eb search combines the powerful Google search engine with Alexa's comprehensive site inf
*or
*mation and puts it all inside an Amazon.com interface." name="description">
<title>Alexa Web Search</title>
<link src="http://client.alexa.com/common/css/styles.css" href="http://client.alexa.com/co
*mmon/css/styles.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="http://client.alexa.com/common/js/search_functions.js" language="JavaScript">
*</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="document.search_form.term.focus();" text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<center>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
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What the? Scared the hell out of me. I thought for a minute that Amazon had bought Google (considering the text above).
After shutting down Mozilla, Google seems to work properly again. I don't think I'm infected with anything; this could be a byproduct or malfunction of Mozilla's search settings, or bad DNS behavior?
I never go to Alexa, and only rarely to Amazon. Never been to "A9" or whatever it's called. No odd "goo..." sites in my recently used list...
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P.S. My "Default Search Engine" in Preferences is of course set to Google, as all deities intend. No new programs installed today, no extensions or other downloads, etc.
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Daniel
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join:2000-06-26
Pleasanton, CA
clubs:  | I'm going to guess it was a bug in the browser...
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B
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| Thanks, daniel. I knew if I stayed up long enough somebody would answer!
Darned buggy Mozilla. If only there were alternative browsers available... 
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P.S. But man it freaked me out. What would YOU do if Google suddenly disappeared or were horribly altered?
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Daniel
Premium,MVM
join:2000-06-26
Pleasanton, CA
clubs:
| said by B  :
P.S. But man it freaked me out. What would YOU do if Google suddenly disappeared or were horribly altered?
My faith in humanity would be devestated. I'd stop dealing with computers, take up gardening, and eat a lot of oatmeal.
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B
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join:2000-10-28 |
Doesn't sound like such a bad idea at that....
Make mine with apples and cinnamon.
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B
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| Hmm. I wonder if this new discussion at Slashdot isn't related to this anomaly :
»slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/13/0126211
quote:
"Network Solutions has updated its whois interface, giving it an interesting new twist. On top of regular info provided, it shows data that appears to be from Alexa, including a screenshot of the homepage (though not terribly recent), as well as looks up your IP, and displays lots of information on it. It even shows the server type, if it supports SSL, DMOZ, Yahoo listing, traffic ranking, and lock status. This comes right after they announced rapid DNS updates. Perhaps they are trying to win over the geeks before they turn on sitefinder?"
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