Someone unknow posted the code below on a forum I visit and I wonder if it's
something more than a Google search bar.

The line:

<input type="hidden" name="client" value="pub-4318146509275872"></input>

seems suspect, but I'm not savvy enough to tell



<!-- Search Google -->
<center>
<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/custom" target="_top">
<table bgcolor="#ffffff">
<tr><td nowrap="nowrap" valign="top" align="left" height="32">
<a onMouseOver="(window.status='Open link in new window...'); return true"
onMouseOut="(window.status=''); return true" href="http://www.google.com/">
<img src="http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_25wht.gif" border="0" alt="Google"
align="middle"></img></a>
<label for="sbi" style="display: none">Enter your search terms</label>
<input type="text" name="q" size="50" maxlength="255" value="" id="sbi"></input>
<label for="sbb" style="display: none">Submit search form</label>
<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" id="sbb"></input>

<input type="hidden" name="client" value="pub-4318146509275872"></input>

<input type="hidden" name="forid" value="1"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="oe" value="ISO-8859-1"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="cof"
value="GALT:#008000;GL:1;DIV:#0000FF;VLC:663399;AH :center;BGC:FFFFFF;LBGC:336699;ALC:0000FF;LC:0000F F;T:000000;GFNT:0000FF;GIMP:0000FF;FORID:1"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="hl" value="en"></input>
</td></tr></table>
</form>
</center>
<!-- Search Google -->

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:53:06 -0500, Jane <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:

>Someone unknow posted the code below on a forum I visit and I wonder if it's
>something more than a Google search bar.
>
>The line:
>
><input type="hidden" name="client" value="pub-4318146509275872"></input>
>seems suspect, but I'm not savvy enough to tel

It's a pretty normal thing to use <input type=hidden ....> to hold
variables, that shouldn't be displayed, to be p***ed onto the
processing page. Since the handling url are all google, if it's used
for anything nefarious, only Google will know

But in all likelihood, without looking at more google search bar codes
elsewhere, it appears to be just a way for google to tell which
customer's site are you coming from.
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