It was definitely not returning search results for me for a good 10-15 minutes starting a few minutes before I posted that message. All I got was a mostly blank page with the Google copyright. I caught Google with its pants down! HAHA! -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote: Nope, the page was done loading, and all that was there was an <HR> and a copyright message. I should've captured it somehow. Oh well. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

From: "Curt Vendel" &lt;curt(a)atarimuseum.com&gt; Bill Gates with his pants UP, is horrible enough.

That sort of behaviour happens a lot here - the "transparent" web caches that my ISP uses (NTL, so one of the bigger outfits over here) regularly fall over and give the same symptoms you describe; timeouts and very slow page loads are common, whilst some sites appar down yet others are fine. How they haven't managed to fix the problem in the year that it's been happening is beyond me! Being transparent of course means the web browser knows nothing about them... until they stop working. Usually the whole pool doesn't fail, so knowing the IP addresses of them usually means I can force the web browser to use a specific one that's still functioning - until the whole lot comes back online. Bloody annoying if you ask me! cheers Jules