By David

Strange Discovery….

Oct 27, 2006 Daily Thoughts

There were rumors not to long ago about Google, Firefox & Ubuntu working together to build a OS to rival MS Windows. The rumors were quickly shutdown by Google. However there may more to it than we all thought……

You see 2 weeks ago I installed Ubuntu on my laptop, and one of the first strange things I noticed was Google showed up strangely in Firefox It looks like this:

If you look closely you will see the search links that normally appear above the search box are running down the left side of the page.

Now if you view the page in a different browser while still using Ubuntu you will find the layout we are all familiar with. Now save the page and open it in Firefox. You’ll get this:

What does this mean…. Well you see Google is using server side software to to publish different layouts for users with both Firefox and Ubuntu.

I tried using Firefox on window, and I tried it with Firefox 1.6 and 2….

So it begs the question…. Why?……

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