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Originally Posted by vincenzosi
One area where Google blew it though, was on the mobile Gmail they started automatically optimizing links in the e-mails for mobile devices. When I get a comment notification from this site, and click it, instead of getting the PPCT mobile page, I get a Gmail optimized version of the regular forums.
That sucks and they should give people an option to turn it off.
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I'm not sure 100% how this could be caught server-side, either. Looking at the header sent with phpinfo(), the only thing that jumps out is this server variable:
$_SERVER["HTTP_VIA"] 1.1 proxy.google.com:80 (squid)
The mobile optimizer keeps the UserAgent as "
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;)", which is a bit misleading. Perhaps sometime soon Google will make its own user agent so we can filter it out server-side. Any server techies have any ideas on how to adapt our server-side mobile redirection scripts to work with this new Google feature? I fear that searching for the proxy.google.com proxy will also affect the standard crawling that Google does, but I'm a bit of a neophyte when it comes to the google dance.