Ok Scraper Sites, Wrong or Right ???

Googles new guidelines state : http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

These quality guidelines cover the most common forms of deceptive or manipulative behavior, but Google may respond negatively to other misleading practices not listed here (e.g. tricking users by registering misspellings of well-known websites). It’s not safe to assume that just because a specific deceptive technique isn’t included on this page, Google approves of it. Webmasters who spend their energies upholding the spirit of the basic principles listed above will provide a much better user experience and subsequently enjoy better ranking than those who spend their time looking for loopholes they can exploit.

Continue Reading

One of my programmers just noticed this in the whois for google.com:

programmer@davenspamserver87:~$ whois -h whois.crsnic.net google.com

Whois Server Version 1.3

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZ.DNSW.COM
GOOGLE.COM.VN
GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
GOOGLE.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET
GOOGLE.COM.IS.APPROVED.BY.NUMEA.COM
GOOGLE.COM.HAS.LESS.FREE.PORN.IN.ITS.SEARCH.ENGINE.THAN.SECZY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.AU
GOOGLE.COM

To single out one record, look it up with “xxx”, where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with “=xxx” to receive a full display for each record.

Continue Reading

ok has I watched a site slowly delist itself from Google, It got me thinking why is Google showing the NonWWW version of my site ! and to make matters worse a dns error had made the NonWWW not Resolve ! … a slow and painful lesson, I guess..

but what made Google stop indexing the www and move to the NonWWW , anyway some things that Google will return when you just search for the WWW and the NonWWW version of your url ..

When you search for either avis.co.uk OR www.avis.co.uk you get :

Continue Reading

Please stand up ..

I got an email today from David Naylor an he had created a Firefox theme.. hehe

so i thought well if he can go ego searching so could I

David Naylor’s that are not DaveN !

David Naylor The Painter
David Naylor The Backgammon Board Maker
David Naylor The Attonery

even a David Naylor with Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient !

DaveN

should search engines really index and publish everything they can find ?

I going to use Yahoo for this test but Google are the same ..

awstats

ok website stats aren’t that interesting .. but

Password.mdb

there are many many more and this is just food for thought

DaveN

ok Private.mdb

do a search on Google.com for :

php password
mysql password
access password

do you see want i see at the top of the serps …

Password
Php: 4.3.10
According to http://djvirus.dj.ohost.de/nuke/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=pass_lost – More sources »

what use is this ??

DaveN

Could this be the same Paul Gardi which hangs out at WMW and SES conferences

Paul Gardi was promoted to executive vice president and general manager of AJinteractive in April 2005

DaveN

http://neptune4.search.corp.yahoo.com/alatheia/us/Test?id= xxx &query= xxxxxxxx

added : http://tools.search.eur.yahoo.net/search

This is not a good one to see in your logs..

DaveN