Couldn't Google make an anti-Google-proof Google if they wanted to?

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You know, a search function that could generate possible variants on a name w/various characters changed and search out all of them? What say you, computer geeks?

If they do it, it'd be like when you're a kid and your friend says he has a "forcefield-cutting laser"

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 16 December 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

OMG OTM

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Friday, 16 December 2005 05:31 (twenty years ago)

dude i've been thinking of this since the beginning of google-proofing, like couldn't they just have sort of a wild-card thing where searching for something with A in it also searches for 4 or @ in the same space? it would be very unethical to write such a thing though.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 16 December 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)

www.fatfingers.co.uk does something very similar with eBay searches, and got me wondering the same thing. It doesn't seem to just be using wildcards either - there's some kind of complex algorithm going on to do with keys nearby.

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 16 December 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

I guess you could always come up with ridiculous unlikely google-proofs like "M2RJSSA ^^YRCH+NT"

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 16 December 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

well i don't really mean wild card for real but i don't know what it's called, it's like the same thing though. i was afraid to talk about it until now in case i was the only one who thought of it and this was like a pandora's box of internet horror (!)

xpost

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 16 December 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

Oops, I mean ^^8r|&&a S*8ri{l

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 16 December 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

I think we should all just type in images called "0.jpg" to avoid this problem!

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 16 December 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

http://blackzarak.co.uk/adi/upload/upload_files/0.jpg

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 16 December 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

(now we wait for endless streams of googlers stopping by to tell me this doesn't actually work)

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 16 December 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

Wh*n will h*ding one's ident*ty using ast*risks st*p once G**gle 2005 or s*mething allows searching for names permuting replacement *sterisks f*r each ch*racter?

― dali madison's nut (donut), Friday, 16 December 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)

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