“Strange Google Links” Saturday, March 4, 2006
Posted by jamshaid in Internet.trackback
The other day while I was procrastinating from doing things I should have been, I found several interesting google links I have never seen before…
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/why_use.html
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/
This one is strange, everything is in “hacker speak” , and all the links work and keep that same encoding of the words…http://www.google.com/3.html
This one is just old. It makes reference to indexing 3 billion pages. Rumor has it they are way passed that number.http://www.google.com/lucky.html
Reminiscent of the old google, I’m not really sure what this one is.http://www.google.com/default.reg
http://www.google.com/google_rsearch.reg
These two are just strange because they are registry files for internet explorer settings. I wouldn’t expect to see that in the google root directory.http://www.google.com/ig/currentcomm/current_links_module.html
This one is only interesting because of the reference to the online file backup account…http://www.google.com/ig/current
This is funny because this looks like their new customized home page…http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=km&tab=di&ie=UTF-8
This is another interesting encoding of the google pagehttp://www.google.com/sitemap.xml
Maybe this isn’t a big deal, but I was surprised to see this xml sitemap in their root.http://www.google.com/mozilla/google.xul2
I have never seen this before, so I thought it was strange. Looks like it is for a mobile device or something…http://www.google.com/ie_rsearch.html
This one looks like what shows up in the IE sidebar at times. Maybe thats what the above one was for too?http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/elements.html
If you like numbers, I just thought this was an interesting break-down of the pages they index and elements of those pages.http://www.google.com/moms/
http://www.google.com/moms01/
http://www.google.com/googlefriends/may1998.html
http://www.google.com/translate_t
http://www.google.com/googleviewer/loading.html
http://www.google.com/ig/resetprefs.html
These don’t really do anything, just interesting or strange pages I found.update:
Here are some more weird languages, thx Tekai for this
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-elmer/
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-piglatin/
Source: The guy who sent it to me & pipesnetwork
hey jamshaid,
i stumbled across your blog again.
I just wanna ask something though.
“hacker speak” = Leet lingo, right?
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or
yes, u r right & thx for visiting again.
http://www.google.com/mozilla/google.xul2
Thats XUL, mozillas gui markup lanaguage, look at it in firefox and you will see it render properly. Its the same language used for the presentation layer in firefox extensions.
The leet speak isn’t that unusual, just go to and scroll down a bit. You will find a list of languages which also includes oddities such as “Bork, Bork, Bork”, “Elmer Fudd” and Klingon. Afaik they also had leet in there for a while but disabled it for some reason. It is just some googlers having fun.
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
thx Sean O’Donnell for that info,
i oppened it in firefox and the render as you said is correct. its interesting i didn’t knew about it before.
tekai: got them
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-elmer/
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-piglatin/
the “Bork, Bork, Bork” is really funny
As already stated the languages ones aren’t that odd. don’t miss the klingon one:
klingon: http://www.google.com/intl/xx-klingon/
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pretty cool selection of links there…great blog btw
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thx damien
gr8 links dude !!
keep it up
Hey, if you search for
flink:anywebsite.com
as suggested in the Google Friends letter you linked to, it turns up random things from Google Base instead!
Quite the selection … when will you be bored again?
arun: thx
Well you must have already seen it, but anyway –
http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
An april fool joke by google
The people at Google must have had a little extra time on their hands, but its always good to have comic relief.
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