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Back when the new in-world, Google-appliance-powered search for Second Life was put together, it had one glaring absence. While the search was entirely Web-based, there was no actual form on the Web. Recently that's changed, with Linden Lab quietly replacing the search field on most of their Web pages with an interface to search.secondlife.com in a recent update.
While there's no front page for the site, it's certainly trivial enough to locate the search forms intended for Web use. Essentially, it's Second Life's internal search bundled up for browsers, even the classified advertising down the right hand side of the results -- though unless you're willing to launch the Second Life viewer for each classified advert, they're not very usable.
All in all, however, it's a tremendous convenience if you can't run the Second Life viewer right away, but still want to dig for something or someone on the Second Life Agni grid, or if you want to look up the UUID for a user (yourself or someone else).
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