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[Rubes_sw]

PageRanking is becoming a hot thing these days and i want to know how this code works:

http://216.239.59.99/search?client=navclient-auto&googleip=O;216.239.59.99;7591&ch=6707120502&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&features=Rank&q=info:http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emicrosoft%2Ecom

And this does not:

http://216.239.59.99/search?client=navclient-auto&googleip=O;216.239.59.99;7591&ch=6707120502&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&features=Rank&q=info:http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyahoo%2Ecom

The first one returns: Rank_:1:1:9 Which means microsoft gets 9 out of 10.

Any ideas why the second code does not work?

ps. This is using Google

Nathan

:Edit Entered pagerank 1 instead of 9 thanks jules

[jules]

I can't answer your question, but according to my Google Toolbar, microsoft.com's page rank is 9 / 10, not 1.

[FreezingFire]

Nathan, where did you get that URL?

And why does the second one return:

[PGWARE]

There has been a big debate about this. Google does not want others to have direct access to their page rank data, mostly so other search engines cannot incorporate that data into their searches.

ch=6707120502

This part of your url string is an encrypted set of characters based on the domain. Each domain has it's own hash and thus the only way your going to figure that out is to know the method of decryption they are using.

Someone did figure this out a few months back, however Google quickly released a fix to their toolbar and used a new algorithm. Their determined to protect their pagerank.

Also if you do manage to get the url string to work in your browser note Google sometimes sends fake rank data as they know the browser user-agent variable your using does not match with the Google ToolBar agent (yours would be Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, etc).

Simply put there is a way to do it but it requires the google toolbar installed. What you can do is install the toolbar in IE. When you need a page rank open a new browser window with the url:
shell open, http://www.whatever.com

Take a screenshot of the IE window which displays the googletoolbar. Then include a routine which checks each pixel of the IE window till it finds the google page rank graphic (the graphic is always the same size - progress bar). Then you can grab the page rank by the number of green bars the progress bar shows.

It's really not as hard as it sounds and I was going to make something like this in the past. However never did have the time to finish it, I did start on it but scrapped it - as there was no practical use. This was about 3 months back.