Why does Google disallow other search engines to crawl these images (via their robots.txt directive, which says Disallow: /hosted/images/ and Disallow: /hosted/life/)? - Philipp Lenssen
The GET request and JSON response pair is pretty much the same as Google Suggest from what I can tell but with a application/json content type and some different parameters returned (like a couple of URLs first). Those binary files are tiny though! I've no idea where to even start with those... - Tony Ruscoe
Yeah, the size is kinda baffling. But the iPhone app is only 2MB, so there's no way it's doing the analysis there. It has to be server-side, somehow. The other possibility is that I missed something in my network sniffing... - Andy Baio