What does the code in a Gxxgle link mean?

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TeenAngel

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• Jan 4, 2012

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So I do a search for Yahoo!, and here is what comes out:

Phrase

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...sg=AFQjCNG7Ba-stir4109vlLygPQX7QGf8bg&cad=rja

Exact

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...sg=AFQjCNG7Ba-stir4109vlLygPQX7QGf8bg&cad=rja

Anyone have any idea what that those numbers and letters in the results actually mean?

If this is the wrong part of the forum for this questions, mods please move it.

 

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TeenAngel

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• Jan 8, 2012
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Shameless bump. Any thoughts on this?

 

davids355

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• Jan 8, 2012

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There are some obvious strings - search word, device, URL might be the first result (for feeling lucky)?

The ones that look random might be hashed I guess??

 

GreyWolf

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Some of the parameters can be pretty useful if you want to create some custom search strings. Here's a few useful results from a google search fr the topic.

blueglass.com - Google Search URL Parameters - Query String Anatomy

yoast.com - Google websearch parameters - cheat cheat

code.google.com - Google Search Protocol Reference

seomoz.com - The Ultimate Guide to the Google Search Parameters