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Re: Blink

#41

Post by gulbrandr » Thu, Jun 26, 2014, 12:04 PM UTC

tempodox wrote: post #34

That page is a perfect example of Domestic Terrorism.

What?

Re: Blink

#42

Post by fmax30 » Thu, Jun 26, 2014, 12:06 PM UTC

HenryMc wrote: post #37

does the same. https://www.google.com/search?q=%3Cblink%3E#q=%3Cflash%3E

No it doesn't. It is only returning that because you have the q=%3Cblink%3C in your url followed by #q=%3Cflash%3C. ( so basically it is loading the blink page and querying for the flash keyword).

Try this url https://www.google.com/search?q=%3Cflash%3E

Something more Interesting https://www.google.com/search?q=tilt#q=HackerNews

Re: Blink

#43

Post by theon144 » Thu, Jun 26, 2014, 12:15 PM UTC

nevi-me wrote: post #39

riquito wrote: post #23

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%3Cblink%3E I wasn't really expecting an easter egg, but was surprised to not find a single result about html. Does it strip any non alphabetic character?

I did a \ trying to see what DDG would do, and it keeps sending me to some blinkfitness.com website. Anyone know what action backslashes add?

Backlash as the first character means "Go to first result" :)

Re: Blink

#44

Post by bwilliams18 » Thu, Jun 26, 2014, 12:30 PM UTC

malka wrote: post #28

gregorkas wrote: post #2

I just had to try marquee :D https://www.google.com/search?q=%3Cmarquee%3E&safe=off

https://www.google.com/search?q=%3Cblink%3E#q=facebook You can make it work with any keyword ;)

thats actually potentially helpful.

Re: Blink

#45

Post by gond1945 » Thu, Jun 26, 2014, 12:31 PM UTC

danielweber wrote: post #40

deadfish wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are either too young or not a web developer :D https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bl...

In today's edition of How To Feel Old: there are some professional web developers younger than .

I remember starting my webdev on Adobe PageMill on an orange iMac, on a 56K dial-up. Man time goes fast...

Re: Blink

#46

Post by btown » Thu, Jun 26, 2014, 12:43 PM UTC

Makes you wonder how much energy is used, and how much carbon is produced, by every frontend server for Google Web Search in every Google datacenter needing to (at the very least) do an extra string comparison for every search done.

Re: Blink

#47

Post by rsynnott » Thu, Jun 26, 2014, 12:49 PM UTC

btown wrote: post #46

Makes you wonder how much energy is used, and how much carbon is produced, by every frontend server for Google Web Search in every Google datacenter needing to (at the very least) do an extra string comparison for every search done.

Compared to the power used by the client computers dealing with Google's increasingly heavy search pages? Pretty much nothing.

Re: Blink

#48

Post by smackfu » Thu, Jun 26, 2014, 12:52 PM UTC

btown wrote: post #46

Makes you wonder how much energy is used, and how much carbon is produced, by every frontend server for Google Web Search in every Google datacenter needing to (at the very least) do an extra string comparison for every search done.

They clearly already have a very extensible framework to give different results page formats depending on the search term.

Re: Blink

#49

Post by McDiesel » Thu, Jun 26, 2014, 1:00 PM UTC

btown wrote: post #46

Makes you wonder how much energy is used, and how much carbon is produced, by every frontend server for Google Web Search in every Google datacenter needing to (at the very least) do an extra string comparison for every search done.

It appears to be implemented in JS... so... none?

Re: Blink

#50

Post by indrax » Thu, Jun 26, 2014, 1:04 PM UTC

bwilliams18 wrote: post #44

malka wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%3Cblink%3E#q=facebook You can make it work with any keyword ;)

thats actually potentially helpful.

Experimented, I'm not sure I made it to 'helpful'....

https://www.google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll#q=conway%27...