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Brendon Koz
Okay, now...I'm doing some simple research to figure out how the Yahoo Search API works as it gives a lot more features by default through a single API call as compared to the Google Search API, plus it allows many more queries per day... Anyways, when I was testing the resultant queries and comparing the query strings, I noticed something interesting... The following URL was copied directly from search.yahoo.com's result:
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http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geuqgglsdEUnAA...RpZANERlgxXzE-/SIG=11nerd385/EXP=1154017184/**http%3a//www.sspl.org/about/admin.php


...is it calling me a nerd? tongue.gif Do you think this is completely random and it just is happenstance or what? I mean, I know programmers will sometimes get bored and add silly things in to a query string, so I just have to wonder.

(FYI, the URL was auto-shortened by IPB so clicking on it won't work as expected, if at all.)
Watty
QUOTE(malikyte @ Jul 26 2006, 09:29 AM) *
is it calling me a nerd?


Uhm... yes? blushing.gif


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