DaveN hints at the technique today. If you want to see exactly what sorts of spamming he’s talking about with other sites search pages, some simple Google searches will show you. (You’ll always need to show omitted results when manually typing in these searches.) site:weather.com inurl:search/partner site:search.orange.co.uk inurl:all?q= Of course, I tend to trust what DaveN puts out… if [...]
It’s rare that I get personally frustrated by cloaking. After all, I expect those types of shenanigans from Web -2.0 companies like the New York Times. But Experts Exchange? Holy crap, do they expect to not just frustrate people by literally scrambling the text of answers until you register? An screenshot of scrambling shenanigans (Actual URL): See how [...]
All free blog hosting services are fighting a huge fight against the automated use of their service for a variety of nefarious purposes. The worst offenders use javascript to automatically redirect the user to download pages for spyware. On Blogger, they provide a “Flag this Blog” button to easily report blogs that violate their Terms of [...]
In a recent TV commercial for the Kellogg’s breakfast cereal, the call to action for viewers is to search for special k using the Yahoo search engine. Hitwise has talked about how the TV ad affects search volume for the term. What’s interesting about this is that “Special K” is slang for Ketamine a “general dissociative [...]