GoogleGuy - 7:01 pm on Jan 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

I think we just link to a site that does whois, which is what FAST does too last time I checked. Querying whois ourself would be a much larger undertaking, but if anyone has recommendations for a good whois site to point to, feel free to suggest it to webmaster [at] google.com and just say "pass this on to GoogleGuy" or something. I think webmasters notice the whois more, but at the same time we added several other things like package tracking for the US postal service:
[google.com...]
It's just part of trying to make sure users can type stuff into the search box and get useful results..