Google indexes its registry file-have a look at it
April 17, 2008 at 3:42 am | In Uncategorized | 1 CommentTags: google, google inc, google registry file
Google indexes something on their own site which should not be indexed at the first moment. Out of just curiosity, I typed google.com/google to find out what happens and I saw a 404 – Page not found custom error page. But wait, the error page also showed some suggested URLs. The first one was something which should not be indexed. Some Google Registry file at google.com/google.reg.
The registry file had a few lines written specifically for Internet Explorer:
REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] "Use Search Asst"="no" "Search Page"="http://www.google.com" "Search Bar"="http://www.google.com/ie" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL] ""="http://www.google.com/keyword/%s" "provider"="gogl" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search] "SearchAssistant"="http://www.google.com/ie"
Weird?
The second suggested URL made me learn a new link to the Official Google Blog. Its google.com/googleblog.
Anybody knows what the registry file means?
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“Anybody knows what the registry file means?”
That it is a registry file. Exactly. The file contains code to set specific registry values to make your homepage google. The other two I believe have something to do with handling exceptions. Such as a non-url entry into your url bar.
Comment by bb — July 24, 2008 #