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Cracking the Google Code... Under the GoogleScope

jglazer75 writes "From the analysis of the code behind Google's patents: "Google's sweeping changes confirm the search giant has launched a full out assault against artificial link inflation & declared war against search engine spam in a continuing effort to provide the best search service in the world... and if you thought you cracked the Google Code and had Google all figured out ... guess again. ... In addition to evaluating and scoring web page content, the ranking of web pages are admittedly still influenced by the frequency of page or site updates. What's new and interesting is what Google takes into account in determining the freshness of a web page.""

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  1. blah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    shitniggers

  2. This is under YRO? by PornMaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How the hell is this about my rights online?

  3. Weird link... by whodkne · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does this mean I'm first for once? Probably not.

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  4. This post is fresher than ever! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First first post to be indexed highly by Google!

  5. 10 Comments and the site is down by Bret+Tobey · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Brought to its knees already.

  6. Wonderful Whitebox Enterprise Linux News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    MOD up: I am not a troll, perhaps a bit off topic, but this is good news.

    Seems the egotistical owner of the whiteboxlinux.net and whiteboxlinux.com domains has decided to offer them on ebay as a peace offering between wbel and himself.

    This is really great news, lets hope someone with WBEL enthusiasm steps up to build a respectable community site.

  7. Oh God... by Robotron23 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Not even this great code can prevent slashdotting.

  8. Google sucks by puiahappy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    One of my google accounts have just been closed [maybe temporary]. First i was thinking that gmail is just down, but then i realised that any other user can login from my computer just fine, excepting mine. [I know it`s troll but i am to mad and i have to let it out]

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  9. Pamela Jones EXPOSED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who Is Pamela Jones?
    By Maureen O'Gara

    Friday May 6, 2005 - A few weeks ago I went looking for the elusive harridan who supposedly writes the Groklaw blog about the SCO v IBM suit.

    The now-famous opinion-shaping open source leader Pamela Jones, aka PJ, doesn't give conventional face-to-face interviews. Never has, near as anyone knows. All communication is virtual. Only one person in the world has ever claimed to have met her - in the pressroom at LinuxWorld in Boston complete with a Pamela Jones badge - and described her as a fortyish reddish-blonde who giggled a lot.

    Oh yeah? Wonder what cold crème she uses.

    Pamela Jones is a 61-year-old Jehovah's Witness who lives in a shabby genteel garden apartment in desperate need of an interior decorator on a heavily trafficked commercial road at 304 North Central Avenue in Hartsdale, New York. Hartsdale is in Westchester and Westchester is IBM territory.

    See, even though Groklaw treats cell phones like they were Kleenex and changes its unpublished numbers regularly, one number it left with a journalist led to this flat and - wouldn't you know it but - some calls from there had been placed to the courts in Utah and to the Canopy Group so obviously this just isn't any Pamela Jones.

    Pamela has lived in apartment 1A for 10 years at least, according to the super, who says he's watched people move in, have children, and the children marry and move away.

    Now, this isn't your usual anonymous New York apartment. It's practically a self-contained village where the super goes for the old ladies' groceries when there's snow on the ground and people know each other's business.

    But the super didn't know much about Pamela except that she had a computer, worked at home (maybe sometimes) for a lawyer, was "paranoid" - his word - and "sensitive to smells."

    He remembered how he was cleaning paintbrushes one day and she came running down the stairs screaming "Fire."

    She was also missing and had been for weeks.

    Nobody there knew where she was.

    She had up and disappeared one day, and the super was worried about her. He said her son had dropped by and he didn't know where she was, and that some strange man that "nobody knew," as the super described him, had tried to get into her apartment while she was gone - the Medeco lock she had had installed on her door - something nobody else in the complex seemed to feel a need for - was more expensive than the door. But, as it happened, the super said, she had just sent in her rent in an envelope postmarked Connecticut.

    Like an episode out of "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego," the trail led to 10 Bittersweet Trail in Norwalk, Connecticut, 24 miles away. Sure enough, parked in the driveway was Pamela's car, just as the super had described it, a dark gray '90s Japanese number with a bunch of Jehovah Witness pamphlets tossed on the backseat.

    The woman at the house, Barbara Sharnik, told a disjointed story. She didn't know Pamela, Pamela hated her, Pamela wasn't there, Pamela left her car there because it got bumped, Pamela left her car there because she left town, and so on.

    Afterwards Barbara called the cops, and then the cops called the number we left with her and the cops said that she was Pamela's mother and that Pamela was on the run and had shacked up with her mother because she had gotten "threatening mail" weeks before and that she had just gotten spooked again because "people were getting hurt around [my] stories" and had lighted out for Canada.

    Odd, the subject of my stories - or any stories - never came up during our brief interview. I was just looking for Pamela.

    That left Pamela's son, Nicolas Richards, who, as it happens, had been in the software business in Manhattan until - why, my goodness - things seem to have come a cropper right around the time Groklaw came into existence.

    Nick and his ma were apparently involved together in Medabiliti Inc, an ISV, because one Pamela Jones with a Westche

  10. A reason why *not* to use .NET? by qualico · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Server Error in '/main' Application.
    Server Too Busy
    Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

    Exception Details: System.Web.HttpException: Server Too Busy

    Source Error:

    An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

    Stack Trace:

    [HttpException (0x80004005): Server Too Busy]
    System.Web.HttpRuntime.RejectRequestInternal(HttpW orkerRequest wr) +146

    Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.2032; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.2032

  11. use askjeeves by himanshuarora · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    use ask.com .This is the best.

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  12. 15 minutes by clheiny · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fifteen minutes on /., and the server (IIS .Net) is toast.

    Hmmmm. Wasn't there a "crash IIS" contest or something like that going on in the past couple or three week?

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  13. dot net errors by alta · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't you love those .net error messages? They are so much more pretty than the apache error messages. They really make it clear, "This is a .net error, we have the prettiest errors, and something is really wrong. Matter of fact, the server is just TOO BUSY."

    Then after saying their too busy, they get into the BSOD type text for us REALLY techie types, talking about unhandled exceptions and stack traces.

    What I don't quite understand is why they take such care to make sure these beautiful error messages are nicely coded with CSS, but there is ONE font tag tainting the whole thing. It really is a shame...

    I really feel better knowing that IIS is giving everyone such appealing error messages and in so much detail. Thanks IIS

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  14. WARNING!! ARTICLE TEXT ALTERED!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When it comes to linking, taco is a scumbag , you should clearly avoid the hocus pocus or magic bullet linking schemes

  15. Re:On the minds of all slashdotters, by EnlargeYourPens · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I didn't expect to find porn when I googled for 'Toyota Highlander Check Engine Light'...I don't think those particular airbags were the ones I was looking for.

  16. MOD DOWN!! TROLL. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When it comes to linking, taco is a scumbag, you should clearly avoid the hocus pocus or magic bullet linking schemes... nice troll, dickhead

  17. Re:Yes by scribblej · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sorry to respond to myself (and off topic, too... goodbye, karma!) but I just thought the comparison was interesting.

    The minimum number of tigers in 1993 was 4400 and the maximum was 7700 where as in 2000/2001the minimum was 5700 and the maximum was 7000.

    From: http://www.globaltiger.org/population.htm

    I can't find any stats for installations of Tiger, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if there were more than 5700 copies out there.

    So the operating system called Tiger might be more prevalent than actual Tigers are. That would be something, wouldn't it?

  18. Grandparent is fine; parent is the lying troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do a search within the grandparent for 'taco is a scumbag'; you will see that nothing has been inserted. It's just the parent (and co-parent) trying to cause trouble.