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....

November 5, 2021 ยท 8 min