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Get an instant thumnbnail of any webpage

Wow! I can't believe I found this only now. Thank to MSN Search a specific URL return immediately a small vignette of your favourite webpage.

See this example on my pet project Scoilnet.ie (first education portal in Ireland!)

http://msnsearch.srv.girafa.com/srv/i?s=MSNSEARCH&r=http://www.scoilnet.ie

UPDATE: Note it workls only with sites referenced by MSN Search, so obviously not too much luck with every websites.

Posted: Jul 24 2006, 09:34 PM by help.net | with 4 comment(s)
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Simone Busoli said:

Curious, I just found it out too, and already implemented in a webcontrol I just developed. Details here: http://dotnetslackers.com/community/blogs/simoneb/archive/2006/07/24/216.aspx. It would be nice to be able to implement a such feature. Any ideas?
# July 24, 2006 5:45 PM

Jason Haley said:

# July 24, 2006 11:39 PM

Bazza said:

Simone, this is the link to your page/article: http://dotnetslackers.com/community/blogs/simoneb/archive/2006/07/24/211.aspx But, you were close! ;-)
# July 25, 2006 9:00 AM

Simone Busoli said:

Uh, thanks Bazza, I got the wrong link.
# July 25, 2006 3:30 PM