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Alexander Turcic · 06-27-2004, 08:53 AM

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.

06-27-2004, 08:53 AM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,163 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Google Toolbar Pagerank Checksum Revealed! 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.