Trawling Weird Google Autocompletes
A while back, I noticed that whenever I typed https:// into the search bar in Firefox on my phone, Google would helpfully try and autocomplete my search with a number of random domains. This immediatly nerd sniped me, so I thought it might be interesting to see what we can find amongst these recommendations. How Google Gets Recommendations Firstly, a quick dive into how we can automate fetching these URLs. I was able to replicate this behaviour in Chrome on my Laptop so I fired up mitmproxy and set to work throwing queries into the searchbar to work out how I could automate the procedure of fetching domains. Rather disappointingly, just as I was getting into Hackerman mode, I found this is actually really simple ...