{"id":440,"date":"2005-03-03T22:30:54","date_gmt":"2005-03-03T20:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olbertz\/2005\/03\/03\/firefox-already-powered-by-google\/"},"modified":"2005-03-03T22:30:54","modified_gmt":"2005-03-03T20:30:54","slug":"firefox-already-powered-by-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/2005\/03\/03\/firefox-already-powered-by-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox: Already powered by Google?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sommer.blog.de\/main\/index.php?blog=27&amp;title=firefox_aamp_google&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">Vasco<\/a> just shared this with me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open Firefox 1.x\n<li>Type in <b>blog<\/b> to the line where you usually enter the URL\n<li>Type return and wonder\n<\/ul>\n<p>What happens? After a while, Firefox redirects to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\">Blogger.com<\/a>. Try this with various other words like <b>sport<\/b>, <b>basketball<\/b> or <b>computer<\/b> (I like this one) or <b>world<\/b>. Your result will vary with the language settings of your browser.<\/p>\n<p>If you compare this with the result list of a google search, you end up with the same top results. So, when typing in a word to the URL entry field of your Firefox, it&#8217;s pretty much the same, as if you press on &#8222;I feel lucky&#8220; on Google.com for that word.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t feel <i>that<\/i> comfortable with this feature and reminds me a little of this incident, where the german Firefox was redirecting through an affiliate when using the builtin eBay search: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heise.de\/newsticker\/meldung\/53308\">Firefox: eBay-Suche mit Umleitung<\/a> (german)<\/p>\n<p>When something is meant to be free (as in free speech), I don&#8217;t want such things happen without my permission.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiesows.de\/\">Kiesows<\/a> shows how to deactivate this behaviour: <i>Enter &#8222;about:config&#8220;, hit enter and search for &#8222;keyword&#8220;. Rhere you can disable it or change it to a real google search.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vasco just shared this with me: Open Firefox 1.x Type in blog to the line where you usually enter the URL Type return and wonder What happens? After a while, Firefox redirects to Blogger.com. Try this with various other words &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/2005\/03\/03\/firefox-already-powered-by-google\/\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olbertz.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}