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Alternative address to Google
2 points by hopfog on Feb 23, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


Google has a pretty significant ip block. You can find these quite easily, with a NSlookup, or even a ping.


The point here is that the address

http://1249765489/

is a fully valid URL with a fully valid IP address. Few people know this is a way to write IP addresses that works well in for example browsers.



isn't that g-o-o-g-l-e on a phone keypad? :D




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