In Spanish, it is very common to type in all caps - somehow it is considered acceptable to type words without accent marks if they are in all caps.
Only point being is that just because the caps lock is not useful in your language/culture, it doesn't mean that other languages/cultures don't find it useful.
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> While this is against the googles terms of service, I can see how someone might think this was a perfectly valid way of countering the fact that google wasn't indexing their site well.
The thing is that the "doorway pages" were stuffed full of german keyword terms like "used cars" and the content was repeated over and over again, with only the model names substituted.
It is garbage. If BMW didn't like the fact that pages didn't work as designed, they should have redesigned them, not presented a totally different set of content to the search engine bots.
Also, you seem to suggest that Google was at fault because it couldn't index the content properly, when, in fact, no search engine could index the site as is as it was designed.
Does you have any idea what a toolbar user is worth to Google? Conservative estimates are around $50 per year per user, due to the searchers clicking on Google Adwords advertisements that show in the search results.
It's win-win for Google: they generate far more revenue per user than they shell out; they promote open source (ie "do no evil"); and they hurt their primary competitor, MSN, to boot.
The fact is that there are plenty of domains using wildcard DNS - org.com for instance - has been using it for years - go to slashdot.org.com for instance, and you'll one of these typical PPC landing page feeds.
What about gov.com ? he's got wildcard subdomains enabled too - whitehouse.gov.com - redirects to his home page. Surprisingly non-malicious - I wish I owned it;)
The fact that uk.com is going to use it is not going to disrupt anything - except possibly the internet clueless who are likely to type in guardian.uk.com (or whatever) into their browser.
This is a minor problem at worst - if the Register is worried about it, they should give free internet classes in community centers or something to educate peoplle on how to use the internet so they stop thinking every website on the internet has to end with dot com.
It doesnt replace the URL at all. My reading is that google simply adds a new page in the database for the url you gave it. In this regard, how is this any different to a wget --mirror on the attempted "hijacked" site? Maybe more efficient but the net result is you are just trying to blag google hits of someone else's content.
PageRank _should_ sort this out as I'm sure lots more people will be linking to news.bbc.co.uk than to r.example.tld/foo/rAndoMLettERS (from the example).
Storm in a [child's] teacup.
I have seen this exploit used in a variety of ways.
For instance, this kind of redirect could be used to highjack Amazon.com - the user types in Amazon into a search box, sees the title and snippet that matches amazon, clicks it, the hijacker gets affiliate commission credit for sending people to amazon.com.
Basically the 302 link makes the linking site appear to host the target site's page, and it replaces it in the search results.
You can pretty much do it for any site. In the case of Amazon, they'd likely void your affiliate commissions - if they noticed (which they would eventually) but if you did it for a few days before, say, Christmas, and took it down after it worked, you might net 8 - 15K in a single day.
Another danger is a malicious site whose redirect page sniffed for JavaScript. User Agents with JS deactivated would redirect straight to, say, CNN, if the UA accepted JS, it could start loading one of the many spyware "tools" that forcefeed affiliate tracking cookies into the user's computer, or much worse.
There are tens of thousands of searches for "cnn.com" in the search engines a day - even if the highjacker was able to only replace CNN for a day, the harm would be widespread.
Unfortunately, the Google PageRank is not considered when ranking the sites, as Google basically considers www.example.com/302.php?www.cnn.com to actually be www.cnn.com - it will show CNN.com's backlinks when your query backlinks for the hijack url, for example.
Having taken the radical step of RTFA (actually both of them) - It seem that Toys R US's issue is that they were paying a premium to be the exclusive supplier of certain products:
"...Toys'R'Us was happy to compete with other vendors, but that "we are not willing to pay for exclusivity we are not receiving"."
Amazon's response is that they had no choice but to violate their exclusivity agreement because of their partner's supposed inability to keep the items in stock, (and it is implied that their buyers were incompetent).
Amazon's point is justifiable, but probably not defensible legally, unless there is some clause that says that Toys R Us could never have less than X% of their inventory out of stock - which is probably why they mentioned the 10% figure.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Fantasy writer JRR Tolkien was found dead in his Bournemouth home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an world literary icon.
Were Google publically traded right now, this news would create a major hit to the stock price. This suggests that any potential buyers of Google IPO stock should think long and hard about the likelihood of expecting more unexpected bad news.
Yahoo! just happens to own about 5% of Google, BTW.
I have never seen a robot (this includes the search engine spiders, crawlers, and whatnot) disobey the robots.txt file.
um. the spambots routinely crawl excluded files and directories to get email addresses.
If you want to test - just put a "spam only" email address on a fresh webpage, exclude it in your robots.txt, then link to it from somewhere on your public site. You won't have to wait long.
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In Spanish, it is very common to type in all caps - somehow it is considered acceptable to type words without accent marks if they are in all caps.
Only point being is that just because the caps lock is not useful in your language/culture, it doesn't mean that other languages/cultures don't find it useful.
> While this is against the googles terms of service, I can see how someone might think this was a perfectly valid way of countering the fact that google wasn't indexing their site well.
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The thing is that the "doorway pages" were stuffed full of german keyword terms like "used cars" and the content was repeated over and over again, with only the model names substituted.
It is garbage. If BMW didn't like the fact that pages didn't work as designed, they should have redesigned them, not presented a totally different set of content to the search engine bots.
Also, you seem to suggest that Google was at fault because it couldn't index the content properly, when, in fact, no search engine could index the site as is as it was designed.
Matt Cutts has a screen cap on his blog -
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ramping-up-on-inter
> Will Google be able to pay all those million?
Does you have any idea what a toolbar user is worth to Google? Conservative estimates are around $50 per year per user, due to the searchers clicking on Google Adwords advertisements that show in the search results.
It's win-win for Google: they generate far more revenue per user than they shell out; they promote open source (ie "do no evil"); and they hurt their primary competitor, MSN, to boot.
The fact is that there are plenty of domains using wildcard DNS - org.com for instance - has been using it for years - go to slashdot.org.com for instance, and you'll one of these typical PPC landing page feeds.
;)
What about gov.com ? he's got wildcard subdomains enabled too - whitehouse.gov.com - redirects to his home page. Surprisingly non-malicious - I wish I owned it
The fact that uk.com is going to use it is not going to disrupt anything - except possibly the internet clueless who are likely to type in guardian.uk.com (or whatever) into their browser.
This is a minor problem at worst - if the Register is worried about it, they should give free internet classes in community centers or something to educate peoplle on how to use the internet so they stop thinking every website on the internet has to end with dot com.
Don't forget that Google owns Blogger - and blogger uses Atom.
I have seen this exploit used in a variety of ways.
For instance, this kind of redirect could be used to highjack Amazon.com - the user types in Amazon into a search box, sees the title and snippet that matches amazon, clicks it, the hijacker gets affiliate commission credit for sending people to amazon.com.
Basically the 302 link makes the linking site appear to host the target site's page, and it replaces it in the search results.
You can pretty much do it for any site. In the case of Amazon, they'd likely void your affiliate commissions - if they noticed (which they would eventually) but if you did it for a few days before, say, Christmas, and took it down after it worked, you might net 8 - 15K in a single day.
Another danger is a malicious site whose redirect page sniffed for JavaScript. User Agents with JS deactivated would redirect straight to, say, CNN, if the UA accepted JS, it could start loading one of the many spyware "tools" that forcefeed affiliate tracking cookies into the user's computer, or much worse.
There are tens of thousands of searches for "cnn.com" in the search engines a day - even if the highjacker was able to only replace CNN for a day, the harm would be widespread.
Unfortunately, the Google PageRank is not considered when ranking the sites, as Google basically considers www.example.com/302.php?www.cnn.com to actually be www.cnn.com - it will show CNN.com's backlinks when your query backlinks for the hijack url, for example.
Amazon's response is that they had no choice but to violate their exclusivity agreement because of their partner's supposed inability to keep the items in stock, (and it is implied that their buyers were incompetent).
Amazon's point is justifiable, but probably not defensible legally, unless there is some clause that says that Toys R Us could never have less than X% of their inventory out of stock - which is probably why they mentioned the 10% figure.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Fantasy writer JRR Tolkien was found dead in his Bournemouth home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an world literary icon.
:P
sorry.
> just as some of the people living in the continent of North America are not American but Canadian.
Hate to break it to ya, but Mexico is part of North America as well.
I read the article and it reminded me that there's some music I want to add to my collection. :)
All I hear is Homer Simpson's voice says "mmm... GloFish... arggghlll!
Yahoo! just happens to own about 5% of Google, BTW.
I think I have some Moon rocks lodged in between the treads of my hiking boots... err I mean Lunar Hiking Boots.
> ...and it only took 6 minutes to /. their server.
That's because its a slow day on Slashdot. If the site was at its prime, it would've only taken 3 1/2 minutes.
Why would it be interesting? This article will probably be in first place for the next 10 years.
This is an example of her art work.
She's 66 year old sculptor. It's doubtful she's into Gangsta rap.
I doubt she's got virtual PC running on her Mac, you do need a better-than-average machine to run an emulator.
1. Jack off more; use escort services less.
2. Save the money under your mattress til november, buy the camera.
3. Post nude pix of the girls from the escort service on your XXX website.
4. profit.
Sounds like the perfect plan.
Jeez. the images are loading pretty slowly. Maybe slashdot slashdotted itself?
>> http://images.slashdot.org/
I have never seen a robot (this includes the search engine spiders, crawlers, and whatnot) disobey the robots.txt file.
um. the spambots routinely crawl excluded files and directories to get email addresses.
If you want to test - just put a "spam only" email address on a fresh webpage, exclude it in your robots.txt, then link to it from somewhere on your public site. You won't have to wait long.
according to error reporting software in windows
Well considering that I think most people rarely send MS error reports - I would guess that 2 times per day is a low estimate of windows crashes.
Okay so who's going to port the "Hot or Not" code to run on these Diebold voting machines.
From the Black Adder
Isn't there a fair sum of money up for grabs for the person who creates a non-modded linux Xbox hack?
Why do half of these ads look like they're straight from a fark.com photoshop contest?
Why do half of these look like they're straight out of a fark.com photoshop contest?