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Nice unintentionally linkbait.

But does their code looks similar to yours?

Look at the code as the author suggests; you will notice that a part of the code( ~40 lines ) is identical, including the comments.

That's because google gives it to you that way.

Much more likely this is a typo in the ID number.

If you're typing that number in by hand, my WAT flag is flying.

If it is a typo in the ID number, thats understandable. But the social tracking id seems to be wrong too and that also points to the authors id. Can't be wrong twice and have both mistakes point to the same person

It could be, but it's exceedingly unlikely to be.

They copy-and-pasted from Google and then changed one of the characters in their ID? Possible, but Occam's Razor and all.

Yup, my guess is the ID is a variable in some templating system or CMS that MLB uses, and someone (for some reason) was typing it.

A 16 digit alphanumeric id? It's far more probable they just copied his code

Apparently it is just a hash collision.

Sergei knew about the potential for a problem with crc32 so they went with crcgoogol instead. Clearly the 1 in 10^42 eventuality happened, improbable as it seemed.

Well actually it's two sets of codes I use which is custom script I put together to track two ids since I have a lot of subdomains. Not how Google gives it to you, which leads me to believe it was copy and pasted. Still not sure how that could happen though.

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