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Originally Posted by Linkster
Halfdeck - that link that you posted is checking the stored text file that Google has for that url to get posted in the toolbar PR display
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Linkster, if you look at the url, I ran a site:xyz.com on a BD dc (I can check any DC I want and any query string, instead of site:xyz.com and return anything from 1 to 100 results). The XML returned
represents a list of SERP results.
Here's the XML for the search "free porn" on 64.233.179.99 (random DC I chose) that returns the first 100 results.
http://64.233.179.99/search?client=n...&q=free%20porn
The checksum isn't a "security measure" per se (ok, I exaggerated). One reason for Google putting it there is probably to prevent people from using scripts to send loads of automated queries. Yes, there are various ways you can pull up the checksum, including cookies.