14. March, 2002 - what a tangled web we weave
- Google Link Is Bush League is an example of google-bombing from over a year ago. The effect is even older than that. [doc]
- Google hit by link bombers. Christ. The BBC just doesn't seem to get the web, sometimes. The way google does its searching is good. The fact that people sometimes subvert the system is the same kind of thing that you can do by always referring to a politician by something other than his proper name. Think
The Shrub
and how it's so closely tied to George W. Bush. A verbal google-bomb. [scripting]
- Web Sites That Heal talks about dealing with linkrot. I've been working on jut this problem for my own sites, and it's a lot of work. One of the reasons I started using Frontier, lo those many years ago, wat that I could move things around, re-render my site, and everything would be taken care of. Except for links coming in from the outside world. I had to write a special template for a
Moved
page that took the new address as a parameter. I'd leave that behind whenever I moved pages around. It was a pain. I like my new redirects system better, but it still requires more manual work than I'd like. Maybe an added perl script that I can use with my search-engine and site-map will do the trick. Hmm. [scripting]
- Judge Rules on Amateur Reporters, saying they have the same rights as professionals. Shocking, isn't it? [doc]
- Spammers target IM accounts. Bleagh. Enough stupid people respond to spam that it's still worthwhile. And $100 buys you 300,000 messages. What's that, something like 299k pissed off people, and $1 per sucker? [daypop]
- I'm thinking I might Cut Off Asia to deal with spam.
- If you look on the bottom of the Contact the IWW page, you'll see an interesting bit of email-address-harvester baiting. The problem is that he's already made up dave@davesnothere.org as a phony email address. So even if I wanted it, I'd have a pre-burned email address. Oh well. No worries, someone else owns the domain, anyhow. Personally, I don't think it's a very effective technique. Sending a spam to a fake email address really doesn't add much cost to the spammer. [some guy]
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Last updated on Thu, 14 Mar 2002 08:59:08.