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Google De-indexes Talk.Origins, Won't Say Why UPDATED
J. J. Ramsey writes "Talk.Origins is an archive with thousands of pages exposing creationist pseudoscience. Rather mysteriously, Google pulled the plug on its search engine, giving only the vague reason: 'No pages from your site are currently included in Google's index due to violations of the webmaster guidelines.' This was apparently triggered by a recent cracking of the site that added 'hidden links to non-topical sites,' but Google won't say just what the violations were. Talk.Origins webmaster Wesley R. Elsberry believes that this Google policy harms honest webmasters." From the article: "My mission, whether I liked it or not, was to find and fix whatever problem the [Talk.Origins Archive] might have, with no guidance as to what the problem was and nothing at all about where to start looking... I was extremely lucky. The damage to my site was limited and in the first place that I happened to look. Other honest webmasters might not be so lucky. They may have to undertake an arduous process of vetting pages, essentially having to second-guess the mind of the cracker in trying to locate a problem that Google knows the exact location of." Thanks to an alert reader who sent in Matt's blog posting about how Google handles hacked sites.
"exposing creationist pseudoscience"...
Slashdot is so biased I don't know why I even bother anymore. Bashing Christians is so fashionable these days.
replacing it with NEW Folger's Crystals! (lets see if they notice the difference)
I'm not claiming to be a victim of anything, I'm just saying that wow.. slashdot doesn't even *try* to be unbiased. People will be people and take things as out of context as they possibly can.
When I wrote the parent I was crossing my fingers hoping "this is going to get modded down for SURE" and sure enough... it did. And btw, if you think that I only troll or never post anything that gets modded up--please check my post history for yourself. My karma is maxxed out.
It's just sad when you can predict with a very high degree of accuracy whether your post will get modded down or whether it will be modded up.
Sure right wing Christian fundies are terrible. So are Athiest (should I capitalize that?) fundies. Point that out on Slashdot? Be modded down. My fiance sometimes trolls on this Christian youth site exposing their hipocracy on things like gay marriage, abortion, and the death penalty. Slashdot is exactly the same only from another viewpoint. The summary (ahaha) of the article is actively trying to troll.
replacing it with NEW Folger's Crystals! (lets see if they notice the difference)
It's funny how the Google apologists are always around on Slashdot to defend Google's (a private company) right to screw anyone, never mind their virtual monopoly on the search engine market, but Microsoft (a private company) is supposed to pay millions of dollars to EU and cripple their own products so some other (really shitty) private company, like Real Networks, may benefit from the outcome.
Relegion has to be removed.
Spam of this type is hard to detect. My blog get's hammerd by spam bots, in my blog case they use the comment system. Thankfully I have a good spam filter. As for Talk Origins there site must have had a flaw in it setting or some exsploid that defected there site. It problay was a automatic bot that did this, crackers leave there signature behind, normally (usally always).
Creationism is part science, part philosophy. So is Darwinism. It's just that Creationists don't hide the philosophical parts of their worldview, whereas Darwinists believe (falsely) that their view is entirely scientific. If "creationist pseudoscience" is a statement of fact, then so is "darwinist pseudoscience". The two are alike.
No the real problem is all his creationalist whaco stuff got relisted. Sometimes censorship can be a good thing, it can save people from making complete idiots of themselves on line. Now I'm going back to work on my web site.... http://www.theearthisflat.org/