You probably know about Google's PageRank and if you don't:
I was reading the source code of a perl script that uses the PageRank package(PageRank =>google pagerank of page) writeen by Yuri Karaban until I come to the line that shows the query string. Something like:
Try It. I can't resist the temptation to try the query in the FireFox browser with http://www.yahoo.com as url and a random number as $ch. I expected to get an error.
But not that error ! and what was really inexpected is that Google wants me to send a code that looks like a PGP signature :-). Look at the picture.
I have no idea what this code hides. I really want to know what the real message is.
If you know something about this code, send a comment.
PageRank Technology: PageRank performs an objective measurement of the importance of web pages by solving an equation of more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Instead of counting direct links, PageRank interprets a link from Page A to Page B as a vote for Page B by Page A. PageRank then assesses a page's importance by the number of votes it receives.
I was reading the source code of a perl script that uses the PageRank package(PageRank =>google pagerank of page) writeen by Yuri Karaban until I come to the line that shows the query string. Something like:
search?client=navclient-auto&ch=' . $ch . '&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&features=Rank&q=info:' . uri_escape($url);
Try It. I can't resist the temptation to try the query in the FireFox browser with http://www.yahoo.com as url and a random number as $ch. I expected to get an error.
But not that error ! and what was really inexpected is that Google wants me to send a code that looks like a PGP signature :-). Look at the picture.
I have no idea what this code hides. I really want to know what the real message is.
If you know something about this code, send a comment.
05 Jan 2006 23:17:04
That is fscking bizarre!!! Maybe Google knows who you are and that's your tracking number -- the mark of the beast!
28 Jan 2006 15:16:51
Being the inquisitive sort, I tried it too (ch=3; url=yahoo.com) in firefox..
My second and third lines are (appear to be) the same as yours, but the rest is different.
One interesting thing I noticed, when I refresh the page, only the first line changes, and ~6 characters of the last one.
I get half the amount of code with IE6 though, though the 2nd and half of 3rd lines remain the same.
Change the ch and the code is completely different, though change the URL and lines 2 and 3 stay the same.
Remove the client=navclient-auto and the 403 disappears and you have the results.
Weird.
I've just found a new goal in life!
28 Jan 2006 15:22:55
Appears to be some sort of user client denial:
http://archives.linuxfromsc...
One is intrigued even more :)
13 Jul 2006 01:39:59
It is probably an encrypted error code. Google is notoriously stingy about giving out useful information and error codes can be very useful...
01 Feb 2007 02:14:48
(a year later) incase you hadn't find out, it seems quite likely to me that's just the google api key that's required for 3rd party developers, using misc google api's. in this case, most likely one to interface with google's pagerank db. code.google.com for more info mayhaps?
25 Mar 2008 21:14:06
i want to be part of this ....
01 Sep 2008 21:07:48
me too!