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Vanity UIDs

Google Search based URLs

"the string obtained by removing the - from uid-vanity"

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On Leslie Lamport's page about TLA I noticed this strange message at the bottom of the page:

This page can be found by searching the Web for the 21-letter string uid\lamporttlahomepage. Please do not put this string in any document that could wind up on the web--including email messages and Postscript and Word documents. You can refer to it in Web documents as "the string obtained by removing the - from uid-lamporttlahomepage".

PS: He is the guy behind LaTeX and some fine synchronization algorithms in distributed systems.

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I immediately added my own UID: "uidjeanhuguesrobert, the string obtained by removing the - from uid-jeanhuguesrobert".

Because of the similarity with VanitySearch/es in the way of looking up for the page, I named Vanity UID this type of UIDs, or uidvanity (being slightly recursive).

June 15th 2007

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