Saturday, October 9, 2010

Dear Diary,

I was doing some research on the Google API today and found some very interesting things. After searching through the API for a bit to see if I could do a website lookup via the IP address I decided to switch my focus onto Dr. Trudel's suggestion.

Dr. Trudel originally suggested taking the first 30-40 characters of a website and using that as the base of our search. I did a bit of thinking on this and decided to try searching for websites by their Title block.

I spent an hour or so going through random webpages and running their Title block through Google, to my surprise every website I ran came up as the first hit on Googles search result.

Exact steps I followed:

1)Pick a random website: www.fonora.com (a website I found on the back of a textile package in my house)
2) Right click and hit "View Page Source"
3) Scroll through and copy the [title] section of the source code (I cant show the actual html representation of <> title on this blog)
4) Go to google.com and insert the title section.
5) Encase the title section in quotes
6) Search

I am going to generate a larger list of test cases and try all of them.

Until then,

Joseph O'Neill

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