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It used to be the case that if you weren't Googlebot, you'd see some blurry scrambled text where the answer ought to be. The blurriness was created by superimposing a partially transparent image over the text, and the scrambled text was really the rot13'd answer, so it was possible to get the answer by grabbing the relevant chunk of html source and running it through a rot13 tool.


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