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Why does searching Google for random hex lead to car dealers? [video]

133 点作者 bonyt12 个月前

13 条评论

CommieBobDole12 个月前
Looking at this very briefly, the results seem to always be inventory pages for the dealerships, which use long strings of hex or just random numbers as identifiers for the vehicles they have for sale.<p>For example, a search for &quot;ca7112b7167c15e621412c0fbc0a6c97&quot; brings up the URL &quot;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.premierclearancecenterofstbernard.com&#x2F;inventory&#x2F;certified-used-2021-toyota-sequoia-limited-4wd-4d-sport-utility-5tdfy5b14ms183153&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.premierclearancecenterofstbernard.com&#x2F;inventory&#x2F;...</a>&quot;, which has a gallery of vehicles at the bottom whose image names are of the format &quot;9b362510c100095f02cf3cad9e365ea6.jpg&quot;.<p>I assume something inside the Google black box is saying &quot;well, there&#x27;s no exact match but this site has a bunch of strings with most of the same characters, so here you go&quot;.<p>Edit: And to add to this, I&#x27;d surmise that the reason you see a lot of car dealerships in these results is that they sell a lot of one-offs - instead of having a list of SKUs in inventory, they sell a unique vehicle just once, so the inventory systems need to account for that by using long strings as item IDs and the like. Also there&#x27;s probably a limited number of inventory systems out there, so a bunch of random dealerships are probably all using the same one.
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libria12 个月前
Repro&#x27;d in an incognito window so it&#x27;s not a history thing. 1st 3 of OPs strings if anyone else is experimenting (remove spaces):<p><pre><code> 3344cfb4 78ead204a49b88 1da6079adf8a e2c75c64 eef8087f6f36df 57 eb944335 73626fe9b73550 b02a651620d8 </code></pre> --<p>Shoot, depending on crawling, this may end up causing this page to match. I&#x27;m injecting spaces above to deter this, but maybe it&#x27;ll also prove out the partial string match theory...
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dtagames12 个月前
Most likely some part of the string matches the VIN number. Dealers are legally required to post the VIN of an actual vehicle in any advertisements that have a price, as a way of preventing bait-and-switch.
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qnleigh12 个月前
Good guesses in the comments so far: VIN number partial matches and targeted search. Anyone going to test what&#x27;s correct?<p>Ideas: 1. Vin numbers are 17 characters and don&#x27;t contain I, O or Q, to prevent confusion with other letters. If you throw in lots of these always spaced by less than 17 characters, do you get fewer hits?<p>2. Does a VPN and&#x2F;or private browsing affect the results?<p>A third possibility is that Google has cheaper ad category for search queries that they can&#x27;t categorize. This doesn&#x27;t explain the diversity of dealerships though.
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ww52012 个月前
The word embeddings computed from the hex values and the car dealership&#x27;s inventory ID&#x27;s probably have close similarity in Google&#x27;s vector db.
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lambdaxyzw12 个月前
Weird premise. I search for random hex literally all the time (checking hashes and guessing algorithms as a part of my reverse engineering work) and I don&#x27;t remember car dealers coming up especially often. I suspect it&#x27;s just the author who - because of their location or the previous search history - gets more targetted car dealership ads.
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joe_the_user12 个月前
I think this is notable just because it&#x27;s a result of Google now having every single search result set be trying to sell you something. That&#x27;s different from simply having targeted ads and rather disturbing.
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omoikane12 个月前
I see that digits is between 10 and 19:<p><pre><code> DIGITS=$((10 + $RANDOM % 10)) </code></pre> If it was always an even number, I would have expected some checksum files to be matched (16 for md5sum, 20 for sha1sum, etc).
cratermoon12 个月前
I&#x27;m going to guess that google makes more money from car dealer ads than it does for programmers searching for hex codes. Also probably just because Google&#x27;s search is more and more giving irrelevant results.
jimbobthrowawy12 个月前
I tend to get variations on cryptocurrency block explorer websites mostly.<p>It&#x27;s annoying when I want to search for a btih or something exact.
Terr_12 个月前
Weird... Maybe Google thinks that the closest inexact match is a VIN number?
worik12 个月前
Search bubble?
hi-v-rocknroll12 个月前
Perhaps Google trolls anyone in security or torrenting, and would instead prefer to show CPM&#x2F;CPC ads to charge instead of nothing because money. &#x2F;s