Hardlink - Connecting the On-line and Off-line Worlds

This first time I saw this it took me a bit to get myanswer was no, surprisingly. The dot mobi web page
thoughts around what I was seeing. To explain, a(Internet for cell phones) that I entered the license
good friend has been a member of a local Corvetteplate number is only a web page in the most limited
club for years and as I sat in the passenger seat ofsense, basically just a blank text box referred to as a
this monster fast Z06 vehicle he points out a fellowdatabase portal that anyone can use. To access it
club members car ahead of us. As we crawled alongyourself, enter hardlink.mobi into your cell phones
in freeway traffic he pulls out his cell phone andweb browser.
hands it to me and asks that I enter the license plateIt is from this portal that you have access to all
number of the other Corvette. I did just that and Ihardlinks, which is basically a hyperlink from the real
was presented with information about that car,world. Once there you enter a name or number
including a picture, the club he belonged to, his forumfound on some object and it searches a database
user name and vehicle modifications - this was cool,and returns all links with that identifier. It does not
but not really rocket science from my assumptions.search the Internet - that is a key point here. In fact,
What I learned next allowed me to see the scope ofGoogle and this portal never even cross paths and
the application I was using.the content is said to not be directly search engine
I asked if this was their club web site and thediscoverable (referring to Google).