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[nycphp-talk] Google w/ thumbnail preview?

Mitch Pirtle mitchy at spacemonkeylabs.com
Sat Jul 17 16:56:10 EDT 2004


Jon Baer wrote:

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> i was googling around for something this afternoon and my results got
> back the thumbnails of the actual site reference, ive never seen this
> before on google, the next search it was gone.
>
> anyone know about this?  i grabbed a screenshot + threw it up on my blog
> (jonbaer.net). i thought it was an option ive been forgeting to set
> somewhere but kinda strange for it to appear on a single search.


I've been watching the opposite at www.alexa.com - not sure of the 
linkage there, but basically you get google with thumbnails (and other 
metadata) returned with your search results.

-- Mitch



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