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Google Random Number Generator (grng)
by dmv at 8:40 pm EST, Nov 1, 2005

grng generates "random" numbers with the Google search engine. Taking a word from a .lst file, grng googles it and then takes a word count of the results displayed on the first result page. Additionally, grng feeds a word from each of the result pages into the .lst file, thereby insuring that the list will not run out.

Why?
While discussing random numbers on #linuxfriends on irc.oftc.net I stumbled accross the idea that became grng. grng makes an honest effort to generate random numbers, not pseudo ones. I hoped that by using randomized human input from a constantly changing database (Google) that I would be able to extract random numbers. However, this is not possible as Google uses its patented page ranking system, which results in the same pages being listed first every time


 
 
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