Does anyone know what this really does?

[brian.mark]

Last night, a friend asked me what exactly it does when he puts link|www.domain.com into Google. This shows far more pages that link to him than link:www.domain.com (some aren't links but just textual references), but I have no idea what that command is supposed to do. I do find the results to be more interesting when checking it on my site as well.

Brian.

[coder]

It's the same as putting your site in quotes.

"www.domain.com" = link|www.domain.com

Although I don't know why they have that function with the |, why did your friend type that in?

Another function I don't get is on XP with 1 monitor if you hold alt, control and the arrow keys you can rotate your monitor.

[brian.mark]

Originally Posted by Phantom

Another function I don't get is on XP with 1 monitor if you hold alt, control and the arrow keys you can rotate your monitor.

That's a function of some video card drivers. I know nvidia has that shortcut set up for most of their cards. It's not a function of windows on that one.

As for why he typed that, I have no idea.

Brian.

[MtraX]

Some websites will probably read better if your monitor was on it's side and you switched to that view as you'd be able to see more of a site...he-he.

MtraX

[markhallgate]

i just spent 10 mins trying to rotate my screen using alt control and the arrows before i read the next post from brian.mark. oopps, how stupid am i :(

[jawn_tech]

Are we sure that "link|www.anysite.com" is a command and not just a search query of those words & characters?

If you put any word where the "link" is, such as "shirt" or "pants", you'll get probably just as many results and they'll look pretty similar.

Some websites will probably read better if your monitor was on it's side and you switched to that view as you'd be able to see more of a site...he-he.

Many digital flat panel monitors like mine rotate, tilt, elevate (on a telescoping base), so rotating the picture angle is a way to use such monitors to look at sites in letter view instead of landscape. I haven't done it yet, but I've seen it done before. (I must not have the right card :})