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Here’s a Gizmodo article that outlines how you can very easily get this on your computer.
I tried it and, well, it is noticeably different. I don’t know, maybe the font has changed or something. Plus, you do get a side bar when you do a search.
By the way, it doesn’t work for anything other than www.google.com. You might find that even if you type www.google.com it reverts to dot-something-else if that’s what you normally use. You can get over this by typing www.google.com/ncr.
I came across this when I was researching a means of setting up a local DNS server. It allows you to type (or copy) in the relevant part of the url (without the http://) and out comes the IP.
Not sure how often I’ll use it but useful to know where to get it.
Getting the GPG key for a Launchpad app can be a pain as the default server seems to be down a high percentage of the time.
Until I found this, I had just been trying over and over until eventually the key was received. Now, however, a choice of servers is available to facilitate this process. This is very welcome.
