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The Power of Accidental Discoveries
schmiddy writes "An article from Wired mentions the surprising number of discoveries that have been made entirely by accident. In an older article, The Discovery Channel's site points out a different subset of inventions that happened by accident. A much older article from PBS goes into more depth on the subject of accidental discoveries, and gives a great quote from physicist Joseph Henry: 'The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.'"
...the power of your wife accidentally discovering you with another woman.
How To Annoy Google
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Google is running some bot software and a specific kind of database
of links. If you know the alrogithms of these system you can cause
DoS, overload it, and noise it.
Noise: there are some very free content systems. Those who do not
like this freedom fight them by inserting noise (which is allowed because
the systems, are, as we said free). Such incidents are happening on
e-mail, napster forums, etc. Googlebots are sensitive to noise and
we can use this weapon against them.
1) Change your webpage often. Add new words:
How does it work:
Each time google visits a page, it adds it to its index and
then revisits after a couple of days. If the content has not
been modified, the revisit period is extended.
What can you do:
By modifying your page daily with a cron script you force the
google bot to visit more recently. Also you noise the "web-history"
which google collects (but does not provide as a service yet).
2) Add peculiar words and unknown words.
That will mess up googles categories. Google may show off as
something that finds 145,512,388,412 results in 0.023 seconds
but in reallity google is using caches. You can verify that
if you put something that has few search hits: google will
report that there are 8 result pages found, but as you click
`next` you'll only get to page 5. So these numbers are false.
By adding random, irrelevant words, you mess up google's
caching and categorizing server. It will also populate the
link subtables. You can create new words by picking two words
from `/usr/share/dict/words` and joining then. For example
"lifeboatlackey", "treacherysprayer" and "Moonrealign".
3) Run a pseudo-web. If you have the ability to run a server you can
fire up a webserver that generates random content. For example,
download random posts from slashdot, generate page, add link
to new pseudo-web page. That'll teach them!
4) Link to huge content. Download a book from the internet and have a
script that picks paragraphs and makes a new book. Link to this
in text form from your web page. Do this in PDF if you can!
5) Link to random pages. That'll harm google's "who links to whom" service.
6) Link to broken links. That'll make the google bots wander without a cause
and will DoS google's "broken links" database. Make a page with 100000
broken liks: the bots will follow!!
The links should preferrably link to pages with names of words, for example
http://microsoft.com/snoopy/hardware.html
That rises the page-rank.
7) Link to slashdot. Google avoids slashdot!
8) Google words: Google links "words" with "document IDs". Common combinations
of words (like "linux kernel"), form new words. So remember: every time you
search google, please take some time to enter irrelevant words. Google keeps
track of past searches and it sets up a dictionary of "words". But this
system is based on the assumption that people search for interesting things
and it is an "e
This was posted on Digg a while ago.
What are you, a hippie? Your myspace especially looks like it.
What're you doing here? you're too lazy/drugged to think and actually code or just be a geek.