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Cloaking Detection?

Posted by Cliff on from the use-your-cloaking-device-hahaha!-I-didn't-think-so dept.

drcrja asks: "I am conducting some academic research on the use of cloaking and how it affects search engine rankings (cloaking is the practice of delivering a specially optimized page to search engine spiders while delivering a completely different page to the user). I am currently using Alta Vista's Babel Fish to retrieve pages and compare those pages to the pages on the actual web sites but I am trying to find other methods of detecting cloaking. I am wondering if any members of the /. community have any experience with this?"

6 of 42 comments (clear)

  1. user agent. by QuodEratDemonstratum · · Score: 2, Funny
    1. Get a browser which lets you alter the useragent, or use a proxy.
    2. Set it to the name the search engine's spider uses.
    3. Browse away.
    4. ???
    5. profit.
  2. How to detect cloaking by gnovos · · Score: 4, Funny

    Use your long range sensors to detect search-space anomolies.

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    "Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
  3. Re:How to detect cloaking - Star Trek style... by AtariDatacenter · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm trying to remember the details of the episode where they had the Klingon civil war, those wonderful Duras daughters (and coward son), and the daughter of Tasha Yar. They made some sort of tachyon network between a large number of starships to try to find a cloaked Romulan convoy crossing into Klingon space. Of course, in the end, Lt. Commander Data used a modified photon torpedo to illuminate a cloaked Romulan ship.

    Therefore, I would suggest that a photon torpedo would be the method best used against cloaked sites. Just one should do the trick.

  4. I've seen this work by xrayspx · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you vent your nacelles the resultant plasma trail should make any cloaked vessels which may be following you visible to the naked eye long enough to shoot at them.

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  5. Re:Use Konqueror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your nickname is wrong. It should be quod erat demonstrandum, not demonstratum. As you have written it, you have taken the gerundive and made it a perfect passive participle.

  6. detecting cloaking... by dousette · · Score: 3, Funny

    Didn't that require some sort of inverse tackyon pulse from the main deflector?