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Cybermage
Cybermage

Reputation: 3

Need help with google's search feature of pre-displaying the website

I have been thinking about this new( I know it has been a while ;p) google's feature that displays the website in the search result.

What i don't kind of get is, how they did it? Is it a form of iframe? or is it a php render of the page? Is it dynamic JavaScript/Ajax? I am just very curious how they have done it? And the follow up question would it possible for us to duplicate for our own sites? Like a search result page to display the page on mouse hover.

Any assistance would be most appreciated? I searched everywhere i could not get a definite answer anywhere?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 110

Answers (2)

You
You

Reputation: 23824

The thumbnail is rendered by some kind of browser engine, and stored in an image file. There are lots of providers of this service, for example Thumbshots, WebSnapr and ShrinkTheWeb.

Upvotes: 3

Pekka
Pekka

Reputation: 449783

It is a thumbnail rendered on server side, and stored in an image file.

There are questions on SO dealing with how to do this, e.g.:

Upvotes: 2

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