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If your point is that 'it's not impossible to do..' I agree.

My point is that this is more efficient, not that it is some super secret 1337 way to hack.

No, my point is that it is already completely trivial, and getting a list from google wouldn't even be worth doing if they did provide it, as you can easily and quickly generate a more extensive list with a single command.

What if I'm a link spammer, then I'd love to have google's list. How can the list be more extensive than google? That is verifiably false. For example, generate a list of IP addresses(500,000+) that have the following characteristics:

1. Have websites that been indexed by google with a PR 2+.

2. Run Web Servers

3. Bonus Points if you can tell me which web servers run the most PR 2+ sites.

Now hopefully you can see how useful this list would be! I don't think nmap will do that for you.

You are very confused. Asking google for a list of IPs does not provide you with their page rank. IPs are not domains, nor are they websites.

> You are very confused. Asking google for a list of IPs does not provide you with their page rank. IPs are not domains, nor are they websites

No, you are again correct. But if I know the IP address and the domains associated with it's very easy to determine PR 2+ websites and also from there figure out which ones have multiple websites hosted on them.

Will you promise you're not trolling me?

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