Friday, February 10, 2006

Maya the good fairy

sometimes when you type a URL, you forget to switch back from hebrew to english. this results in something like:
נםשדדםמץנךםעדפםאץבםצ, which of course would get you nowhere (although it's very nice and biblical looking).
capitalizing on the fact that many browsers automatically query a search engine in case of a weird URL (like google), Maya created a series of webpages that would cause google to link to her webpage upon such unfortunate event. which is fortunate because she doesn't use it for her own advantage, but rather to provide a link to the actual web-page you were looking for :)
this is great because it's selfless and because it utilizes something (google, automatic search and automatic linking) to perform a sort of metatask that was not planned by the creators of the search scheme.
this is also cool because i've complained about this for so long and finally someone does something about it that does not require the obvious plugin. respect!
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