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Google Partner with Microsoft for IE7 Promo?

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Are Google to partner with IE7 to promote Goolge ON IE7? This image found on Flickr would suggest so, though i don't have IE7 to confirm its validity.
If true, it's certainly not something i would have expected. Apparently you need to be running IE7 to see it.
Thanks Michel

- Y! MyWeb

Promo?

To me it Looks Like Goggle are only taking over the default MSN search installed on IE7.
?

By GoLinks at Aug 15 2005 - 09:38

Just a detect?

Cant see it being a joint venture.

By chrisgarrett at Aug 15 2005 - 09:43

What's the news?

Until now, Google detected users' browser to show different information. For instance, try to access google.com with IE and see "Make Google Your Homepage!" (http://www.google.es/mgyhp.html).

Now, Google's still detecting IE7 to show a link to change the default search engine.

It's not a joint venture or something similar :)

By agirretxu at Aug 15 2005 - 10:57

ooooh sneaky

*cut to start of The Simpsons - Bart is writing on blackboard*

Google are not evil
Google are not evil
Google are not evil
Goo....

By Gurtie at Aug 15 2005 - 11:15

What's the news?

agirretxu is correct -its not a story - or if it is, its just the opposite of working together. It is, as Gurtie says, sneaky, with G trying to subvert M$ users

G shovel up different pages according to your browser

Firefox gets

[img]http://www.utterbollocks.com/photos/google-ff.gif [/img]

IE6 get

[img]http://www.utterbollocks.com/photos/google-ie6.gif [/img]

and IE7 get

[img]http://www.threadwatch.org/images/googie7.jpg [/img]

By cornwall at Aug 15 2005 - 11:37

Fair point everyone! I was

Fair point everyone! I was in a hurrry to get out the door this morning, not that it's a good excuse for getting a story utterly arse about face, but it's the only one i've got :)

By Nick W at Aug 15 2005 - 14:23

~

Just simple user agent sniffing to deliver up that link (try switching your UA in Firefox). BTW it isn't the usual JS add bookmark thingy for IE5+ - it is a link to an executeable:

http://w ww.google.com/options/setie7defaultsearch.exe

Wonder what that little toy really does? ;)

By encyclo at Aug 15 2005 - 15:19