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Google Traffic Takes Down Web Site

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the comparisons-inevitable dept.

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."

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  1. haha...and now slashdot is gonna take it down by craqboy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    nuff' said

  2. Great... by sitharus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They thought they had it bad getting googled, now they're getting slashdotted as well! Lucky them.

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  3. Re:Oh mighty Google... by LostCluster · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Google made a rare editoral decision yesterday when it suggested searches of "julia fractal" on its Image Search system. Clearly, it wasn't a good one... users got directed to 404 pages.

    If somebody wanted to be really naughty... they could have replaced their highly-ranked fractal page with a redirect to popup hell, and pocketed the money resulting from that.

  4. Re:I love it by dacarr · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Sue for trademark infringement?

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