For those with a slightly geeky bent of mind, here's something that might interest you. It definitely got my buddy, Satya, all worked up.
He showed me how some awesome coders "went ahead and hacked Google's checksum algorithm and ported the ASM code to PHP PERL and Pascal" (whatever that means).
More interestingly, he showed me how it could be used to find out your pagerank without the Google toolbar.
You can read his blog post here
Google Checksum Algorithm Cracked Umm... a little warning though. This would be akin to querying Googles database and using its resources for purposes of which it might not approve, so tread carefully.
# posted by Priya Shah @ 5:48 PM
