Feross.org

Last week, I posted about how Google lost search market share, but overall US searches increased by 5%.

Now I have some more interesting news to report about those same statistics. When I first looked at the data, one of the figures struck me as a bit odd when I first saw it, but I didn’t post about it …until now.

The search engine with the largest growth in US search market share last month was Comcast. Say what?

Yup, you read that correctly. In fact, Comcast’s month-over-month search market share increased by 41%. Granted, they never had much of the search market to begin with, but still — 41% seemed like way too much for Comcast to ethically gain in a single month.

After some investigation, I discovered that Comcast has been up to something fishy.

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I decided to figure out how many Feross’s I could fit in one URL, with each one serving a different function. Here is my result:

http://feross.feross.org/feross/feross.feross?feross=feross#feross

You found the secret page.

If you remove a single “feross” from the URL, then you fail and don’t get to see the secret stuff hidden at this location!

Every feross serves a different function in the URL.

Can you name all the feross’s?

In order, they are:

• subdomain
• domain name
• TLD – top level domain (technically this one isn’t a feross …yet!)
• folder
• file name
• file extension
• “get” parameter
• “get” value
• URL anchor (or hash)

Ok, back to studying for finals!

EDIT: updated TLD description because it’s .org not .feross. Thanks Daniel!

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