Part of my project requires me to look at how different websites do search. Some websites (ridiculously) don't allow you to access their search without doing a POST (allmusic.com). Other sites do, but tag along 1,000 different GET parameters. For these sites, I usually strip off all the unnecessary stuff and see what happens.
For Bloomberg, this is what I got. It looks like they've cloned Google Search from 2005, bit for bit, and injected their own search results inside of it. Any ideas why?
Maybe they have a Google Search Appliance? (I don't really know. Just wild ass guessing. I'm pretty sure the appliance has been around that long, though.)
Looks that way. Then again, the default behavior from using the search box from the home page also has a few more parameters on the URL, which result in skinning the results.
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