Google Searches

tonidepoli · Post by **tonidepoli** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 3:02 am

Hey everyone:

I logged onto this forum for one reason only: to complain about the way in which any search you do on Google, for any topic, generates an "Anime Studio Forum" hit, in which the topic name, whatever it is, appears along with a lot of random-generated junk. So, I just want to say, screw this forum and the people who designed it to have that obnoxious feature. I guess its supposed to be clever. But a legitimate forum ought to be able to function without gumming-up people's efforts to find stuff on the www.

If you don't believe me, try doing a 24-hr search for anything and you will see your stupid forum showing up. Assholes!

Koochy · Post by **Koochy** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 3:35 am

Whaaaa? Which Google are you using? I like how you went out of your way to post here. Your tears are delicious.

madrobot · Post by **madrobot** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 3:48 am

I conceed that I am an Asshole.

But I don't know what you're talking about re: google

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:19 am

Hehehe, I wish this funny post were real. Probably it will be edited in next days to sell us penis' enlargement or something similar.

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:31 am

selgin wrote:Hehehe, I wish this funny post were real. Probably it will be edited in next days to sell us penis' enlargement or something similar.

LOL selgin, I have read this a few times and been tapping the 'William Tell overture" with my fingers on my desk trying to come up with something funny to reply to this post and kept coming up blank. Then this drifted off into my head; Fran Drescher laughing; now the world makes since again.

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 5:14 am

Hmm... should I remove this now or wait for the spam?

I am so paranoid these days about deleting stuff.

-vern

eok · Post by **eok** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:36 am

I've seen this happen to folks before in various situations. The three most common reasons:

1) The user's PC relies on a ISP/firewall/proxy/router that employs web caching/filtering (like squid). The web cache/filter can become munged for various reasons - which can affect returned google search results.

2) The user lives in a country that filters/censors all searches and (as a result) the ham fisted attempts at censorship can impact search results.

3) The user is employing complex search expressions and getting unexpected results. This often happens when the user doesn't really understand how the specific expressions actually work.

If the person is running a 24hr "search", then they are trying to do some serious data mining via google. Sadly, the most common objective for this kind of data mining is to collect email addresses. To be fair, I've no idea what kind of searches this person was doing - like I even care.

It appears #3 above is probably the cause. That's because if the user was really knowledgeable on how google searches and hit rankings work, they'd know that forums don't contain any magic code that exerts significant control over how google ranks the forum's content. Sure, forum owners can pay really big bucks for that privilege - but that's surely not the case here. Also, yes, somebody can programmatically generate a bunch of searches to make the forum more visible to searches - but google is pretty good about detecting that kind of ploy and squashing it rather promptly.

OK, I went into the weeds on this one... sorry.

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:14 am

Well, yes, blaming search items for Google's search ... that guy should get his internet permission revoked.

dueyftw · Post by **dueyftw** » Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:41 am

There is a virus or worm or something that will redirect all your Google search's to anything but what you want. Nasty little thing that 99.999% of the time comes from Porn sites.

Have you been looking a Porn tonidepoli?

If so try this: Type in 'www.lostmarble.com' directly into your browser to see the page. Then type it into Google, you should get a response back from Google with Lost Marble at the top or near. Click on it and if you get a web page that is trying to sell you marbles or something that is not the correct page, you have a been hijacked.

Dale

F.M. · Post by **F.M.** » Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:05 am

He did state that he join the forum to find assholes, nowhere in his writing did he mention an interest in creating animation!

hairdressing · Post by **hairdressing** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:44 am

You are right. I am also facing the same issue.

stringevil · Post by **stringevil** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 4:40 am

Bots, no doubt about it. Hairdresser? Heheheh I moderate on a musicians forum and we get the lil buggers all the time. Nuke em.