Has anybody an idea what the parameter "rls" means in the Google search?
Something like this: http://www.google.com/search?q=Google+Blogoscoped&rls=com.microsoft:da&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1
I do not see any difference with or without it (except personlizied search). |
Source of the query and the language (something to do with affiliation).
In Google Toolbar IE: rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-23,GGLJ:en
In Firefox: rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
Other values: rls=en rls=RNWE,RNWE:2004-18,RNWE:en rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-34,GGLD:en (G Desktop) rls=HPIB,HPIB:2005-19,HPIB:en rls=GWYA,GWYA:2005-44,GWYA:en
There are also: sourceid= client=
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Okay, but how can the source be com.microsoft? |
Confirmed.
google.com/search?q=test&sou rceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en- US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8 |
Maybe it would be good to create a parameter list (I see a Wiki) :-) |
seems to give different answers in some cases in number of pages found and shown:
http://www.google.com/search?q=yahoo&num=100&start=300&sa=N&rls=en-us
Results 301 – 325 of about 1,600,000,000 for yahoo
http://www.google.com/search?q=yahoo&num=100&start=300&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
Results 301 – 400 of about 1,070,000,000 for yahoo
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Not a wiki, but suggestions are welcome.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/07/meaning-of-parameters-in-google-query.html
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Now as I recheck the results I am getting inconsistent answers with
&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
and
&rls=en-US
depending on whether signed in or not, and always the same: 1.6G or 1.07G pages.
Go figure. |