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With the technique under discussion (using Google to search for the MD5 hash), it doesn't really matter what the computational cost of finding a plaintext for the every possible hash value is -- you're not brute forcing a collision, you're doing a search using someone else's enormous resources. That's always going to be O(1) from your point of view (with a lot of overhead, of course).


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