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Original Post: Welcome Google User! A smart use of HTTP_REFERRER
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I was impressed to see news.com using the referrer data (in this case, I was coming from Google) to enhance their interface:
Welcome, Google user!
If this story isn't what you're searching for, try these other News.com search results for "FOO":
... insert other results ...
This is a really smart use of context. In a stateless world such as the web, we often don't know much. It is interesting to think about different ideas that we could put up based on where someone came from.
One crazy idea would be to get some general 'poll' data. E.g. imagine a political article. You could record how people came from the democratic undergroup, as compared to rush limbaughs site ;)
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