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Comment by mgdlbp

Google refuses to search for hash-like strings that aren't well-known across the web.[0] That's why this search gives no actual results. (It certainly will in the future as this submission gets reposted, breaking the googlewhack)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31638976

(I think Bing also blocks hashes but has an exemption for UUIDs; right now it gives me results for random UUIDs but not random MD5s)

Bing and Yandex are both capable of locating OP's Minecraft account in online databases:

https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://www.google.com/search?...

https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://www.bing.com/search?q=...

https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://yandex.com/search/?tex...

PS: example of an uncommon hash that Yandex finds but not the other two: the MD5 of 'Hacker News' (f3e4...), which actually occurs on the web on one site (http://archive.ph/oLgUe http://archive.today/lkyNN http://archive.ph/v3TY5)

parent mgdlbp 4 years ago

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