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Re: today's Wash Post Business section
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs () seastrom com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:22:03 -0500
Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis () neustar biz> writes:
The #10 google search in the "Who Is" category (leading off with Borat, Hezbollah, EU, hot, ...) is "IP Who Is". I'm not sure what to make of that. Has google replaced the whois client?
Well, the article talks about people using "myspace" as a search term, when their goal is apparently to get to a web site. This seems to be a case of the same thing. I just tried a few variants of search to get whois data for a block that's assigned but not been used publicly (so as to avoid mail header hits etc) out of Google - no dice. If you search (literally) for "ip who is", though, the top hit is for the ARIN web-based whois, the second is for someone I'm not familiar with, the third for RIPE, the 7th for APNIC, etc. ARIN employee lurkers on the list would be better suited to giving us the stats, but my impression has been that the great unwashed masses have used the web forms in preference to the command line client for years now. ---Rob
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- today's Wash Post Business section Edward Lewis (Dec 20)
- Re: today's Wash Post Business section Robert E. Seastrom (Dec 20)
- Re: today's Wash Post Business section Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 20)
- Re: today's Wash Post Business section Thomas Leavitt (Dec 20)
- Re: today's Wash Post Business section Edward Lewis (Dec 20)
- Re: today's Wash Post Business section Steven M. Bellovin (Dec 20)
- Re: today's Wash Post Business section Marshall Eubanks (Dec 21)
- Re: today's Wash Post Business section Robert E. Seastrom (Dec 20)
- Re: today's Wash Post Business section James Blessing (Dec 21)
- Re: today's Wash Post Business section Robert E. Seastrom (Dec 20)
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- Re: today's Wash Post Business section Robert Bonomi (Dec 21)
- Re: today's Wash Post Business section Alexander Harrowell (Dec 21)
- Re: today's Wash Post Business section Andy Davidson (Dec 21)
- Re: today's Wash Post Business section Alexander Harrowell (Dec 21)