The wiki example is an interesting 'invasion' of that Web property, in that it highlights the superiority of the Google search results in finding relevant information quickly, primarily due to format of abstracts and key word weighting, over the native Wiki search.

Try "oil supply world war II" and note how much easier it is to find an article relevant to the subject via Google.

On a side note: why doesn't a search for string 'wikipedia.com' invoke this 'teleportation' feature?

Rocco

Didn't try it couldn't be bothered!

Could be a good thing if instead of 50 results for an item on eBay, I get one searchbar result for eBay and 49 results other than ones from eBay.

"<search term> site:theregister.com" for example ;)

"On a side note: why doesn't a search for string 'wikipedia.com' invoke this 'teleportation' feature?"

Probably because Wikipedia's actual site is wikipedia.org (wikipedia.com is just a redirect). Obviously, Google feels that when you search for a site, you should know the address of the site you're searching for ; )

No icon because I'd like an "evil google" icon, but they don't do evil, so there couldn't be such an icon...

this really isn't anything new. in fact it's already ava. at http://google.search.a-remotehost.com/

they (the folks at a-remotehost.com) also have a 'in a window' (at least that's what they cal it) version that opens a smaller browser google search window. they set it up so the user can keep a google window open, browse the web, then search any specific site they come across or search the web in general. sounds kinda like google saw something someone else was doing and decided to do the same.

@tfewster: Some websites (municipal, educational) have a "search powered by Google" widget; I'm not sure how exactly this works, but they probably have a "harvest keyword search queries" subroutine that allows them to see if/how folks use these search widgets on the specific sites, and if it'd be more "productive" (however they define it) to cough up a search box within the results for www.somesite.com

"So how did they know, unless clicking on a link actually opened the new site in a frame with Google monitoring the traffic?"

Have you not visited a lot of websites recently? Seems half the world is using google analytics, and the other half is using google syndication, both of which require javascript (and blocked here by noscript). There's no need for frame trickery when your spying tools are installed on any site the user might choose to visit.

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Neat - And it's probably even more underhand than that, as the example they gave "NASA", _doesn't_ say "powered by Google" and NoScript doesn't list google-analytics as one of the sites blocked

Where's the tinfoil hat icon?

There's no indication that they mean searching using the site's searching tools at all. Within that site just means using Google to search for results within that site. Am I the only person who that seems obvious to?

No, I've done that a few times.

Google for, say, hmso. See from the results that it's at hmso.gov.uk (IIRC), then google for `<crap I want to find> site:hmso.gov.uk

It's probably be a combination of the two. Though it's still just a search within a search, so there's no need for it to called teleportation. Stealing an old word for marketing fools no one.

it doesn't even work for amazon.co.uk.

I suspect a dose of:

if $searchterm in (amazon,nasa,...) then $teleportSearchMode = true;

I wonder if its a feature activated by the presence of a google search appliance reporting information back.

http://www.google.com/enterprise/public_search.html

...would welcome that feature for the IBM web site. It's impossible to find anything there by using their own search.