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Offline Ron

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Why the insane long Google URL's recently ?
« on: November 12, 2017, 03:42:31 pm »
Hello.
Say I want to search an album title like "screaming for vengeance" in Google, why does it return like this :

https://www.google.nl/search?q=screaming+for+vengeance&rlz=1C1CHFX_enNL770NL770&oq=screaming+for+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.7239j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Does anybody here know what the stuff after the first & symbol means ?
Just curious ...

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Re: Why the insane long Google URL's recently ?
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2017, 10:51:35 am »
Looks like its identifying which browser you are accessing from.

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Re: Why the insane long Google URL's recently ?
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2017, 10:58:47 am »
It's various tracking/user info.

Ask Kidder about it (in a lead lined room with no electronic devices within 200m)  ;D

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Re: Why the insane long Google URL's recently ?
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2017, 11:14:01 am »
:lmao

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Re: Why the insane long Google URL's recently ?
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2017, 12:23:13 am »
Hello.


Bit late to respond as SP above has provided links but here's some more...

The ? is used by the parser to determine the namespace of the requested resource at the server to process the request ie /search and the & symbols are parameter separator/concatanators, all pretty standard in HTTP requests, and the parameters themselves then follow standard key=value conventions.

So...

The q= screaming+for+vengeance  is the actual search query submitted.

The oq= screaming+for+...

This is what you had got as far as typing but you then selected the Google suggestion that appeared ie 'screaming for vengeance' and it likely enables the Google search engine to learn and fine tune what it auto suggests.

These are the possibly more interesting ones....

The aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.7239j0j8[/i] parameter.


The number after the dot seems to be the milliseconds between the first keypress and submitting the query.
So for chrome..69i57j69i60j69i61l2j69i60j0.2486j0j7 it's 2486ms
It always starts with chrome..69i57
What follows seems to be a encoded list of the autocomplete results, when you type a long query this list will get longer.
I am not sure of the last part (j0j7). The last digit seems to indicate whether you picked one of the suggested terms.


and...

The rlz=1C1CHFX_enNL770NL770.


RLZ identifier[106] Encoded string, according to Google, contains non-identifying information about where Chrome was downloaded from and its installation week, and is used to measure promotional campaigns.[105] Google provides the source code to decode this string.[101]


See here for more on the use of rlz for promotional campaign stuff.


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Re: Why the insane long Google URL's recently ?
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2017, 07:46:23 am »
Fuck me. So any old random search, it's not just tracking that search but also how long your browser's been installed?

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Re: Why the insane long Google URL's recently ?
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2017, 04:23:30 pm »
Hello.
Say I want to search an album title like "screaming for vengeance" in Google, why does it return like this :

https://www.google.nl/search?q=screaming+for+vengeance&rlz=1C1CHFX_enNL770NL770&oq=screaming+for+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.7239j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Does anybody here know what the stuff after the first & symbol means ?
Just curious ...

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