[WikiEN-l] Schools Wikipedia

[wjhonson at aol.com]

All I did was enter that in my Google box that's in my Browser address 
bar.  I don't know if you'd get a different result if you actually 
*went* to www.google.com and used the search box in the middle of that 
page or not.

I forget what that thing is called that appears as a search box right 
in my address bar, but it claims it's google !


-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 4:00 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Schools Wikipedia

2009/4/22  <wjhonson at aol.com>:
> Never having heard of this, I googled it.
>
> 
http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://schools-wikipedia.org/&ei=ko7vSe--LZHgsgO35dniAQ&usg=AFQjCNGHWVsmx1H5Rj9QmaaPUDR4kcovMw
>
> Why does Google add that funny bit at the front of this long URL, and
> that really odd bit at the end?  What does it all mean Virginia?
> Anyone?

What exactly did you google and where was that URL? It's a google URL
pointing to the schools wikipedia URL, probably so they can monitor
who clicks on external links, or something. The last bit is probably a
session ID, it's like using cookies but puts the info on the end of
the URL instead of in a separate file.

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