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		mockery on May 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Library of Babel Neat. How on earth does search work? (Particularly the "with random English words" part)

mockery on May 3, 2015 [–]

Oh. Nevermind. Duh.

mockery on May 3, 2015 | [–]

(Since the address is the content, just generate a random block of text that has whatever properties you want, and then "re-encode" it as an address. "Search" complete!)

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