Perhaps in an effort to prevent the news sites practising something like google-bombing, the search engine has tweaked its service. The Register offers a peak behind Google’s curtain.

A discussion last week on css-discuss about user-defined style sheets offered some excellent tips (a few I’m now using). Then David Elfstrom sent me a link to a site offering custom icons for links. Though a bit gaudy for an actual Web page, they could be quite useful for user style sheets.

For example, combined with CSS Signatures, this:
  #www-saila-com .offsite:after { content: url("/graphics/qbullets/remote.gif" }
could but an animated globe after all offsite links on this site.

These:
 a[href^="mailto:"]:after { content: url("/graphics/qbullets/mailto.gif" }
 a[href*="#top"]:after { content: url("/graphics/qbullets/scrollup.gif" }
could add, to any site, an envelope and an up arrow after email links and “back to top” links, respectively.