“Search!” [when infinitely applied as input] -> infinite loop
| Friday, October 26th, 2007 | --Sean |
I'm always pretty excited about the fact that I work at Yahoo! Sports. Not gonna lie, it's a really fun job. So it's great to see that my enthusiasm produces relevant search results: searching for "Sports!" -- note the exclamation point -- from Yahoo! Search will take me directly to the Yahoo! Sports home page. Other excited search queries, like "Finance!" or "Farechase!" produce equally punctuated redirects. And you thought the exclamation point at the end of our name was just a gimmick.
There are a bunch more cool search tricks available here, but this was definitely one of the quirkiest (and one of the few that I hadn't actually known about).
EDIT: See comments for explanation of awkward title, originally just: "Search" -> infinite loop
October 29th, 2007 at 1:58 am
“Search!” -> infinite loop is false. It’s just a self reference accessed once or, in other words, one iteration in an infinite loop. ;)
(Please don’t curse me for this.)
October 29th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Heh, touché. :D I’ll amend the title post haste.
November 6th, 2007 at 4:09 am
Heh. It’s another matter that I actually tried it in the search box out of curiosity! Only later did I realise this. :p