Google in putting ads on its homepage?

[Johnburk]

On http://www.google.by google has put ads on its homepage?

Have you seen other google homepages with ads?

[toughguy]

No, I didn't see Google putting in Search Home page till now..This is the first time..

[samantha pia]

http://www.google.co.uk/

google has put its name in braille and spelt it wrong

only 6 letters in google not 7

how do you feel the bumps?

[Will.Spencer]

Very odd! It appears that they have written 'Google.

[samantha pia]

'google

no full stop, (period)

[cornelius]

thats weird the bellarussian page

i never taught google are that desparate to put ads on the front page

[pratik]

well they never use full stop in there logo

[nevetS]

I wonder if google.by is owned by google. I couldn't find a whois server for that tld. Could be that they didn't get to that tld in time.

[Davilac]

google.by it's not owned by Google.

[NetMidWest]

http://www.iana.org/root-whois/by.htm

URL for registration services: http://www.tld.by
Whois server: None listed.

http://www.tld.by/indexeng.html
Interesting. I haven't found a whois for this tld.

[Johnburk]

Originally Posted by Davilac

google.by it's not owned by Google.

How do you know? Who owns it?

[Davilac]

Said by Google:

"This site (http://google.by) is not owned, operated or controlled by Google.
We are aware of this site and our legal counsel is investigating the matter. "

[Johnburk]

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=google.by

Not on Google servers.

I don't know how long the site has been up, but what if they had use Adsene. Would that be $$$$$$

[samantha pia]

its not a google owend site, so easy to spot to,

look at any google sites front page
http://www.google.com/
http://www.google.co.uk/
http://www.google.se/
http://www.google.dk/

to list just a few, all them are real google sites, note the copyright date? 2006,

go look at the rouge site, its copyright is 2005

google keeps up to date

[Johnburk]

I just did a search and found that this news is really old!

http://www.it-belarus.net/news/read/2004/08/14/

Google has been trying to get this domain name for 1.5 years or so.

[samantha pia]

i just sent it an email and it bounced mailbox full
but i did get full headers to with the ip#

Xwhois query for 10.65.251.17...

Results returned from whois.arin.net:


OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
OrgID: IANA
Address: 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
City: Marina del Rey
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 90292-6695
Country: US

NetRange: 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
CIDR: 10.0.0.0/8
NetName: RESERVED-10
NetHandle: NET-10-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: IANA Special Use
NameServer: BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG
NameServer: BLACKHOLE-2.IANA.ORG
Comment: This block is reserved for special purposes.
Comment: Please see RFC 1918 for additional information.
Comment:

[comp71]

I would be totally surprised if they resorted to selling adspace on their home page. Do they really need the extra money?

[mightyb]

Im not surprised with Belorussia having been there.

[Matts]

Originally Posted by samantha pia

Xwhois query for 10.65.251.17...

10.* is a non-routing IP address. Must be the internal ip of the mail server behind the firewall.

[Matts]

Traceroute ends at aletsch.pchighway.com (194.230.33.43) [Switzerland]


whois is dreadfully slow for pchighway.com and reveals nothing. But they're an isp (so probably not the owner)
http://www.pchighway.com/