If you access Google on a mobile device, it automatically sends you to the PDA version. How does Google "know" when someone is accessing its site from a PDA device?

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Egao No Genki

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Browsers give certain information to web servers when they connect. Usually, it contains the browser name and version, operating system name and version, and other things. Google just uses that to redirect.

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crystalkarl

WURFL (Wireless Universal Resource File) < http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ >

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