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Has Google been hacked?
In article ews.net,
"Mike T." wrote: "JAD" wrote in message ... google toolbar installed? you physically looked in the temp folders and deleted ALL cookies check your 'hosts' file It has nothing to do with my computer. Someone else ran a search on Google UK and got the same results. -Dave http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+%2...&start=20&sa=N The above is not a search that I ran, it was run on a different computer, on the UK google web site. Note that most of the results are off-topic, and hosted in Poland. It's not my equipment, and it's certainly not any software on my equipment. -Dave Have you ever heard of "spam farms" ? If I load up a web page, with megabytes of common phrases, I can raise the priority of my web site. Now, if I set up a few thousand web sites like that, perhaps hosted on a small number of computers, and each one has some adverts on it, I can make big money by tricking you to click on the link. Usually the nonsense host name in the URL, is the giveaway that you are entering a "farm". A good spam farm will harvest common English phrases right out of USENET postings. So the more you repeat your common phrases in USENET, the more likely it is that a spam farm will add the phrase to their web page. I find on Altavista, if I do a search that has some relevant links, the spam farms occur further down the list of returned results. If I search for something that doesn't occur on a legitimate site, then all I get is spam farm listings. The people who run the search engines are aware of the existence of spam farms (as it fills their server database with garbage), but it is an ongoing battle between the "farmers" and the search engine tuners. And the "farmers" appear to be mostly winning the battle. This might be a place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_chocolate HTH, Paul |
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Has Google been hacked?
Mike T. wrote:
"JAD" wrote in message ... google toolbar installed? you physically looked in the temp folders and deleted ALL cookies check your 'hosts' file It has nothing to do with my computer. Someone else ran a search on Google UK and got the same results. -Dave http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+%2...&start=20&sa=N The above is not a search that I ran, it was run on a different computer, on the UK google web site. Note that most of the results are off-topic, and hosted in Poland. It's not my equipment, and it's certainly not any software on my equipment. -Dave No, that isn't the search the UK poster posted. His was this http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_q=...s=&safe=images And his does not produce the pl results yours does. Also, whenever I try inputting the search phrase you use I get normal results. It's only when using the LINK you post that the PL results occur. |
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Has Google been hacked?
1. your search is not on first page of results. on the first page enough
good search results pop up 2. google isnt hacked its just tricked into thinking those pl-sites are "useful" and this is be done since years. normally google knows about and sometime later those sites disappear again. Mike T. schrieb: "JAD" wrote in message ... http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...milk+chocolate "Mike T." wrote in message reenews.net... I just ran several searches on google, from their "advanced" search page, and NONE of them gave me any useful links at all. The last search I ran was for exact phrase "the history of milk chocolate". I got 184 totally OFF-topic results, which included (my favorite) "used ultralight aircraft for sale in Australia". Oh, and all the links end in .pl It kind of looks like Google has been hacked. -Dave Odd. I just ran the search again. AGAIN I got mostly off-topic links, most of which the url ends in ".pl". Again, has google been hacked? -Dave http://www.google.com/search?q=+%22h...&start=40&sa=N |
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Has Google been hacked?
is not true. my google lists his links too but they appear on later
resultpages not on first. its normal and nothing strange. just some linkfarms on .pl domains. all other results appear normal. Robbie McFerren schrieb: Jim Strathmeyer wrote: In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Mike T. wrote: It kind of looks like Google has been hacked. -Dave X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 Because of this, and the fact that other people don't seem to be having the same experience that you have, the most likely solution is that you have some sort of malware. I agree 110% with this malware issue. |
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Has Google been hacked?
I tried the same search on Yahoo.com
"the history of milk chocolate". I got all good results. PJ |
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Has Google been hacked?
"David Maynard" wrote in message ... | Mike T. wrote: | "JAD" wrote in message | ... | | google toolbar installed? | you physically looked in the temp folders and deleted ALL cookies | check your 'hosts' file | | | | It has nothing to do with my computer. Someone else ran a search on | UK and got the same results. -Dave | | http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+%2...&start=20&sa=N | | The above is not a search that I ran, it was run on a different computer, on | the UK google web site. Note that most of the results are off-topic, and | hosted in Poland. It's not my equipment, and it's certainly not any | software on my equipment. -Dave | | | | No, that isn't the search the UK poster posted. His was this | | http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_q=...s=&safe=images | | And his does not produce the pl results yours does. | | Also, whenever I try inputting the search phrase you use I get normal | results. It's only when using the LINK you post that the PL results occur. | No. My search result is absolutely identical to his. |
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Has Google been hacked?
Interesting Ian wrote:
"David Maynard" wrote in message ... | Mike T. wrote: | "JAD" wrote in message | ... | | google toolbar installed? | you physically looked in the temp folders and deleted ALL cookies | check your 'hosts' file | | | | It has nothing to do with my computer. Someone else ran a search on | UK and got the same results. -Dave | | http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+%2...&start=20&sa=N | | The above is not a search that I ran, it was run on a different computer, on | the UK google web site. Note that most of the results are off-topic, and | hosted in Poland. It's not my equipment, and it's certainly not any | software on my equipment. -Dave | | | | No, that isn't the search the UK poster posted. His was this | | http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_q=...s=&safe=images | | And his does not produce the pl results yours does. | | Also, whenever I try inputting the search phrase you use I get normal | results. It's only when using the LINK you post that the PL results occur. | No. My search result is absolutely identical to his. Yours may be but don't try to tell me what *my* search results were. Those two strings are different and gave me different results, as I noted. |
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Has Google been hacked?
On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:23:40 -0400, Mike T. wrote:
"Jim Strathmeyer" wrote in message ... In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Mike T. wrote: It kind of looks like Google has been hacked. -Dave X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 Because of this, and the fact that other people don't seem to be having the same experience that you have, the most likely solution is that you have some sort of malware. -- Jim Strathmeyer OK, well my antivirus software was updated today. I ran a full system scan with nothing found. I updated ad-aware with the latest definitions today. It found a few cookies and deleted them. Nothing else was found. I cleared ALL stored information out of firefox, rebooted the system and tried again. Again I got mostly results with urls ending in .pl http://www.google.com/search?q=+%22h...&start=30&sa=N I did get some relevant results, but it is really ODD that most of the results are off-topic, and hosted in Poland? -Dave Odd indeed. All I get are references to the history of chocolate. **shrug** No off-topic garbage at all. -- __________________________________________________ __________ Kubuntu, try it and Windows will be a thing of the past. (Ubuntu is a humanist ideology from Sub-Saharan Africa) H. Seldon I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called "Brightness" but it doesn't work. |
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