March 3, 2006

Strange Google Links

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 page

http://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----

Several people asked how I found these sites. Basically it came down to being bored (and procrastinating doing actual work) and just googling google. Something like this, or this, but in modified and varied versions.

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Comments

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Posted by: Franklin | March 30, 2007 2:04 PM

Nice found!!

Posted by: JOKERz | March 14, 2006 9:57 AM

The Google Gulp thing was an April Fool's joke.

Posted by: nt | March 6, 2006 2:52 PM

About the 3 billion pages indexed, look at the bottom of the page, copyright 2001. Probably just an old page...

Posted by: Simon | March 5, 2006 3:17 AM

with http://www.google.com/ig/current

there was news a while ago that google are allowing companies to make customized versions of the personalized home page for use by customers and employees

This is nothing more than a hosted home page for the employees/customers of http://www.currentgroup.com/ (an ISP specializing in BoPL)

Posted by: sidd | March 4, 2006 9:40 PM

Yarrgh! the 1337 5P34|Yarrgh! the 1337 5P34|

Posted by: kevinchai | March 4, 2006 8:42 PM

http://www.google.com/ie is a very simplified addless google.

Posted by: keith | March 4, 2006 5:31 PM

What about this then:

http://www.google.com/googlegulp/product_line.html

very odd.

Case.

Posted by: case | March 4, 2006 2:48 PM

nice list but here's another cool one:

googlex.jayssite.com

it's just a cool variation of google. it works basically the same

Posted by: Giovanni | March 4, 2006 2:25 PM

Great List!

Posted by: Haochi | March 4, 2006 12:01 PM

Is there a link between "Current Communications"
(http://www.google.com/ig/current) and "Ubuntu",
considering the similar Icons?

Posted by: Joost | March 4, 2006 10:28 AM

Lovely stuff! How did you find it all?

Posted by: rAymond | March 4, 2006 10:22 AM

This officially seals the deal... you are a nerd!
Do you know all these other nerds that are commenting on your entry, or did they just randomly find your site while searching for "interesting break-down of the page index"?
Later!
Dut

Posted by: dut | March 4, 2006 9:13 AM

If you notice on the language preferences page, they also offer klingon.

Note: I have never watched Star Trek.

Posted by: c.todd | March 4, 2006 4:01 AM

The 3 Billion really seem to be a thing of the past. Try searching for something strange that does not exist: -af8flkdjsaf48ur ...

Posted by: Gupeca | March 4, 2006 2:28 AM

http://www.google.com/mozilla/google.xul2
Works fully in Mozilla Seamonkey which is the replacement for the old mozilla browser suite browser.
How can i use it in a Seamonkey sidebar?

Get Seamonkey
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey

Posted by: kibmcz | March 4, 2006 12:46 AM

Just a note, the .xul2 file is actually a sidebar for the old mozilla suite browser. It might still work in firefox, but the integrated search in the toolbar is much more convenient...

Posted by: kepstin | March 3, 2006 11:55 PM

Where and how did you find these links?

Posted by: teen | March 3, 2006 11:49 PM

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