This is unrelated, but how did Google manage to produce such awful URLs? Is this just a base-26 encoded GUID? If so, they could've saved a few characters: htt

This is unrelated, but how did Google manage to produce such awful URLs? Is this just a base-26 encoded GUID? If so, they could've saved a few characters: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0xED11C880FA5611DDA604001EC203A3AD+in+base+26 http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0xED11C880FA5611DDA6040... Not that this is something you'd want to do in the first place, because it's hideous.