Google Expanding To IRC?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @01:51AM from the oh-that'll-be-useful dept.

AnimeFreak writes "In this The Register article, Google apparently has been involved in a little bit of activity in various IRC channels. According to Google, as asked by IRC Junkie: they're researching ways to improve their service and the activity is only temporary. Could this mean an ability to search for information that is contained on IRC? Services, such as Netsplit.de and Search IRC exist, and both allow the ability to get information from various IRC networks. Is Google trying to replicate what both these sites have done?"

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Bot vs. Bot by matchlight · 2003-11-11 02:07 · Score: 5, Insightful

The IRC admins, at least for most of the better channels, will simply set up a config to kick/ban the google bot. Many channels don't allow non-human connections unless set up by the channel admins. Unlike the annoying spammers who uses legit and stolen access points, google will likely come from a single legit source making the process of denying access easier.

Google shouldn't be trying to find more content, they should be working on filtering out the mass of garbage sites that already exist.