How does this cross-domain request work ?

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Published on 2010-05-04T13:25:56Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 13:28 UTC
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$.ajax(
{
    url : "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=google&lang=en&rpp=10&since_id=&callback=?",
    dataType : 'json',
    success : function(data)
    {
        alert(data.results.length);
    }
});

How exactly is this working ? I mean the cross-domain request.

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