There’s been a lot of discussion lately about using google to do lots of really interesting things in regards to hacking. Google is a hacker’s best friend for a couple of reasons; the site he’s targetting doesn’t even know they’re being probed, google is FAST, and people often don’t realize what they’re making available that google somehow manages to find where normal mortals might fail.
Well, what about using google to hack itself? I was looking in the Google Labs for all sorts of interesting technologies that are fun to watch. Except, I knew there were some others that were missing. So I used google, pointed it at itself and let’r rip. Here’s some interesting results that came from that digging. Some of them have been public at one time or another, others I don’t think ever have been.
At some point this just became a list of interesting google links and way too big. Read on, fellow google fan.
o labs1.google.com/keys/ (google keys)
o labs1.google.com/gvs.html (google voice)
o labs.google.com/britney.html (hysterical)
o print.google.com/print/faq.html (google print)
o labs.google.com/matchmaker (yeah, I know it’s down now, but intriguing that it existed at some point)
o labs.google.com/papers.html (papers written by googlers; apparently linked to from their job hiring site)
o labs.google.com/gviewer.html (google viewer; down now, but used to be public)
o www.google.com/holidaylogos.html (HolidayLogos)
o www.google.com/customlogos.html (google’s original name was backrub, here’s the logo)
o Anybody care to explain this?
For what it’s worth, here’s also the most recent google-news. A job posting in the form of a billboard:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/16/139232&tid=217&tid=8
First answer:
http://www.7427466391.com/
Left by jordan on September 16th, 2004
So, did you figure out the answer to the second level?
Left by Evan on September 16th, 2004
I didn’t find out the first one either, I just saw it online. At this point, it’s easy to google for the answer.
I don’t remember offhand, but it has to do with the sequences being a certain offset into the depth of e.
Left by Jordan on September 16th, 2004
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
Left by Colin on September 17th, 2004
That adds up to 49. Yeah, I found it.
Left by Evan on September 17th, 2004
See, that just looked like a phone number to me (set inside a URL) I probably would have called it.
Left by David on September 23rd, 2004