[ale] OT: March 9 Meeting

[Scott Castaline]

William Witt wrote:
> Funny but true search for "http" a google.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=http&btnG=Google+Search
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> Rev. Johnny Healey wrote:
>> except this doesn't use dns.  it uses google search.
>>
>> On 3/6/06, *Jeff Hubbs* <hbbs at comcast.net <mailto:hbbs at comcast.net>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Could that be an example of DNS poisoning?  I recall something in the
>>     DNS specs about how null names are to be resolved.  Perhaps a
>>     local DNS
>>     has been tricked to doing something that maps nulls to MS, much as IE
>>     (at least at one time ) "steals" 404 pages and points people to MSN
>>     Search instead.
>>
>>     Geoffrey wrote:
>>
>>     >Rev. Johnny Healey wrote:
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >>if firefox can't parse a url, it does a google "I'm feeling
>>     Lucky" search.
>>     >>So, if you type in a word, or the name of a site (such as
>>     "slashdot") it
>>     >>will sometimes take you where you want to go.  So when it sees "
>>     >>http://http/;//ale.org <http://http/;//ale.org>", it passes
>>     that to google.  The real wtf here is
>>     >>that the first link returned by "http" is microsoft's web site.
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     >
>>     >Exactly.  It's more like returning a negated value.
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
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Interesting that google shows up as #25 after: Welcome to the UN. It's 
your world <http://www.un.org/>