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Google Traffic Takes Down Web Site
bazonkers writes "Searchenginelowdown.com reports that it appears that the Google logo yesterday (honoring Gaston Julia) linked to the Google image search results for the words 'julia fractal'. The resulting traffic generated from clicking on that 'featured logo' incapacitated the servers of the top-listed images, hosted at an Australian university. This more than inconvenienced the owners of that site, who had to move pages and ended up displaying this page instead."
Looks like no one has heard of /.
You guys are mean. First they the googled and now they get slashdoted....
Cheers,
RoadkillBunny
Oh beautiful!
Let's add slashdot to our list of sites DDOSing us!
Wow, you Slashdot Editors like kicking people while they're down, huh?
And while we're at it, why not make the file redirect to www.sco.com? Oh wait... that's been done.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
...and this sort of thing is news on SLASHDOT???
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
So if a Slashdotting is abbreviated as "/.ed", I guess this site was 100000000000000000... well you get the point.
leave it to slashdot to do it again today with monster truck force!!
I was just about to point out the same thing. Oh well... I think I'll go and reload the site a couple more times, just to rub it in.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
Smooth.
Yikes! Gives a whole new meaning to the term "google bombing"
HAHA, maybe /. and G00GLE can do a tag team on them again. Can you feel that? Huh, Huh?
'click'
Upon reading the article heading, my first thought was also "Oh great, now they're gonna get a whooping from slashdot as well!", but, of course, the first N-teen posts are all the same thing. So, "AOL!" to you all!
No fair, guys, April is almost 2 months away....
Yow! I'm supposed to have a plan?
And while reporting incapacitated australian univ servers on slashdot, Searchenginelowdown.com is being hosted on a new site called Searchenginedown.com
Free XBox, PS2
Watch me pull a fractal outta my hat!
[Servers exploding in Australia]
Oops! Looks like I don't know m'own strenth!
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
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Basil: (cheerfully) Yes, well one of the guests has just died.
(Polly slaps Miss Tibbs, who folds up and falls to the floor)
Basil: (to Polly) Oh, spiffing! Absolutely spiffing. Well done! Two dead, twenty five to go.
Help fight continental drift.
Here's the full text from the website tomorrow:
Browsing Slashdot?
Looking for the page complaining about Google?
On the 4rd of February 2004, this page (or rather the page that was here) was swamped by requests and the server subsequentially failed. The reason was traced to Slashdot(see image below) posting an article about a webpage about Google posting an image about fractals, which when clicked accessed our web page. The link went directly to a page about google (or rather the page that was here).
[Image used without permission from Slashdot]
In order to get this server functional again, the page that was here has been moved somewhere else. It shouldn't be too hard to find it if you really want to, do a Google search for "Using google fractal" or if you would like to complain more about google try googlewatch.
Please note that this is not a criticism of Slashdot or nerd but rather an interesting dimension to the power they wield. They have hundreds (thousands?) of members worldwide that distribute their traffic load. If even a small percentage of that traffic is directed to a single server.....what chance does it have?
Questions: Should Slashdot ask permission before potentially sending huge traffic loads to a single page/server? Should they regulate traffic to individual sites/pages by allowing accesses by karma? Why do so few of them have girlfriends?
Happy slashdotting!
Slashdot nerdeth
and Google geeketh away
Blessed is the dork?
First google takes them down, then slashdot. Someone must really not like fractals. :)
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The Google page was listed on Fark yesterday. So that site has been: 1. Googled 2. Farked 3. Now /.'ed
The unintentional DDoS trifecta!
No sig, sorry.
Weird, I've tried to see what Google knows about Gaston Julia, it turned out that Google doesn't actually know him.
The IT section color scheme sucks.
we feature you as a logo. ;)
Looks like google doesn't need an IPO, after all
The best planning can be done after the project completes.
C'mon you geeks! Take off those pocket protectors and put on the gloves! Google's callin' you out!
Then you would see what a /. -ing could really do!
...if google linked to slashdot like that? I mean, what would we call that? A slashgle? A googdot'ing? :-)
We can rely on the highly scientific Googlefight system.
Slashdot vs. Google - Winner: Google
Slashdotted vs. Googled - Winner: Googled
Clearly, Google is superior and far more dangerous.
Bitchslapped. Neat.
The resulting traffic generated from clicking on that 'featured logo' incapacitated the servers of the top-listed images, hosted at an Australian university. This more than inconvenienced the owners of that site, who had to move pages and ended up displaying this page instead."
*clicks on the link*
*waits*
*for awhile*
Oh, the irony...
And the masses cried out, "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0!"
I would like to see Google create a link from the main "Google" picture to Slashdot, and at the same time get Slashdot to write a post about it linking to the Google site, and see who's servers drown first.
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
why not sue google for infringing on slashdots patent for taking down web servers?
Imagine a... no, it's already a cluster.
I, for one, welc... damn, that doesn't work either: Google's already a God.
In soviet r... shit!! it doesn't work the other way around!
Formula for success:
1. Create interesting website about fractals.
2. Put it on the internet on the day Google honours Gaston Julia.
3. Prof... FUCK, there's no money to be made there, plus I didn't use the "???" step!
I give up.
...we have a new definition of google-wack
Yes, but whats that got to do with the price of tea in D'ni?
I was just thinking the same thing.
:)
I'm a little small *down there*. But I'm not that small.....
Karnal
The slippery slope, eh? That sure is, (sarcasm), valid reasoning.
Oh, the Irony.
First Google slashdots a site on recursive fractionated geometry, then the Slashdot editors invite the whole community to rubberneck.
Get Google to buy OSDN and Fark, add a boobies section to /. and unleash the most powerful force the internet has ever seen... Will make mydoom look like a prank on a high school network.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
OMG Google is like the new Slashdot!!! (imagine snotty teenager voice)
Googledotting?
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating