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You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
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Re: You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
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Re: You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
It ignores the quotes a lot of the time. They are less explicit than you may imagine.
yup, "11..22" still finds all numbers from 11 to 22.
But '11..22' yields 11,22 11:22 11/22 etc.
Seems the Unix Bourne shell is seeping in - single quotes are for real, double quotes allow param substitution ...
Re: You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
#35Neither 1111111..11111111111111111111111 11111111..1111111111111111111111 111111..111111 // minimum case or any other integer combination. 6 digits is the minimum amount that spawn the bizarre error.
000000..000000 //minimum case?
I know, the point is this happens with 6 digits minimum on each side of ..
Re: You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
#36Guess they don't want you to search for credit card numbers
Re: You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
#37Reading the comments here gave me an idea....google your own credit card numbers to check if its already in some scammer's index. While no results might not necessarily mean you are safe, a positive match is a clear red flag.
Re: You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
#38Reading the comments here gave me an idea....google your own credit card numbers to check if its already in some scammer's index. While no results might not necessarily mean you are safe, a positive match is a clear red flag.
Even better, LOCK DOWN YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT WITH DOUBLE AUTHENTICATION, then set Google alerts for your:
credit card, or if paranoid, partial credit card # "123456789"
Email address
Home address
Phone number
screen name (e.g.: "andrenotgiant" -site:ycombinator.com)
Bank acct partial
Password, Password partial "p@ssw0r"
Re: You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bing doesn't really come to the rescue -- the X..Y format on Google searches for numbers in a range. Bing seems to just try to find that string as plain text.
Yes, it doesn't hit some strange error page though.
Correct.
Instead it returns some generally useless results that are likely not at all what the user desired.
Truthfully this seems about what I expect from Microsoft.
Re: You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
#40Reading the comments here gave me an idea....google your own credit card numbers to check if its already in some scammer's index. While no results might not necessarily mean you are safe, a positive match is a clear red flag.
Even better, LOCK DOWN YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT WITH DOUBLE AUTHENTICATION, then set Google alerts for your: credit card, or if paranoid, partial credit card # "123456789 " Email address Home address Phone number screen name (e.g.: "andrenotgiant" -site:ycombinator.com) Bank acct partial Password, Password partial "p@ssw0r "
Sweet, now someone just has to get into my google account settings and I'm screwed.