On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Collin Forbes wrote:
>www.yahoo.com is also a really bad example for comparative formatting.
>They're specifically looking for "Lynx" in the user agent header, and
>serving a different page.
I take that back. They don't seem to do it anymore.
For awhile I had a filtering proxy running on my local machine. Among
other things, I told it to always use "Lynx/2.8.2 libwww-FM/2.14" as the
User Agent header, even if I was using Netscape or IE.
Altavista and Yahoo would alway give me simplified versions of their
pages--usually more focused toward searching than portals.
It looks like Altavista is still doing so.
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