Thread: Google Toolbar Pagerank Checksum Revealed!
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Old 02-17-2006, 08:09 AM   #6
Dieter Werner
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Originally Posted by Alexander
Doctorow, Alex, Cyberax, and a few anonymous provided the necessary information to reveal that Google's toolbar uses Bob Jenkins' Hash Function to calculate the checksum which is required to query a site's pagerank from google's server.

The complete source code was transfered from ASM to PHP by Alex and is available in the same thread mentioned above.
I converted it to Perl.
The script is released under the GPL.
See: http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/57037.html

Would be nice if somebody would rate it there
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