Earlier today LowLevel pointed me to this Google SERP, showing a surge in p0rn spam on Google Notebook (see screen-shot below):
site:www.google.com/notebook/user
Blogs (including mine) are being bombed right now with links to such pages.
I had seen Google Groups spam, but I have to admit the Notebook flavor was new to me. I think it must be […]
Google, Yahoo!, Live Search. Amen.
And in case you were wondering about ex-wannabe major search engine Ask: their blog is practically dead. R.I.P.
submit_url = “http://www.everfluxx.com/de-robotorum-exclusionis-protocollo-updatum/”;
A friend of mine sent me the following screen-shot today (note the row underneath the ad in premium position):
I instantly ran a search for “pscore mcpc thresh” and found zero results, which made me think those must have been internal variables leaking out of AdWords in debug mode.
Then a colleague pointed me to […]
Long time no post… Remember Virgilio’s robots.txt issue (now fixed)?
I wasn’t too shocked today to discover that Netscape Search (whose results are also provided by Google) has the same “bug”: Netscape Search’s robots.txt file does not disallow /search.
As a result, Netscape Search has about 40,000 of its SERPs (that is, Google’s) in Google’s index. Check […]
Update! (July 6, 2007 : 4pm)
After reading this post, Alice/Virgilio have patched their robots.txt file, a search engine rep announced at the GiorgioTave.it Forum today.
Here’s the updated version:
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search/cgi/
Well done, Alice/Virgilio!
Note: I’m leaving the rest of this post unedited.
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The Italian search engine/portal Alice (a.k.a. Virgilio Ricerca), whose web search results […]
While fiddling around with Google Custom Search Engine, I wondered: why in the world Google does not provide a comprehensive, topic-based directory of CSE’s (besides a few hand-picked “featured examples“) or -even better- a search interface to find and discover new custom search engines quickly and easily?
Luckily enough, where Google lacks, a few brave hackers […]
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