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Random links with Google

24th July 2002

Paul Freeman has come up with new use for the Google API—generating random links. The idea is simple but effective—a random theme is selected and searched for (via pygoogle), then another search is run on the title of one of the top ten results to return a random link and description.

Posted 24th July 2002 at 11:28 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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