Comments on: How To Add 7 Billion Pages To Your Index Overnight

By: jaybong

jaybong — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:31:41 +0000

I know I’m a little late to all this, and I haven’t read it all carefully but:

The whois for dotnetdotcom.org says it’s registered to a Jeff Albertson aka – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Book_Guy

And regular readers of SEOmoz know that only Rebecca would know enough Simpsons trivia to be that clever (except perhaps myself).

By: Michael VanDeMar

Michael VanDeMar — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:56:04 +0000

Sean, that depends. I wrote this before people started posting the evidence that moz does in fact own DotBot. You’re right, if they don’t own it then it’s probably not related… though even if I was wrong about the two being connected it was still worth discussing.

It just seemed way too damn convenient that the prime suspect for being SEOmoz’s primary source of data suddenly jumped in capacity from being able to spider millions of pages since they were created to billions of pages, right in the middle of Rand and I debating his assertion that moz did in fact spider 30 billion pages all by themselves.

By: Sean Maguire

Sean Maguire — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:46:38 +0000

What you’ve demonstrated here is dotbot’s clear and brazen effort to lie and deceive the viewing audience. Surely this has nothing to do with SEOmoz.

By: Doug Heil

Doug Heil — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:19:54 +0000

The shite keeps getting deeper and deeper. It’s so deep now for seomoz; there are no boots created/made/invented high enough to keep that shite from flooding.

By: Happy Feet

Happy Feet — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:54:13 +0000

I especially like how in the first and second screenies you can see that they multiply the dayfield by leet (1337).

By: Pops

Pops — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:18:41 +0000

But of course if you scooped up 7 billion pages from “other sources…”

By: Shark SEO

Shark SEO — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:08:14 +0000

That’s a ludicrously cheeky move! Congrats on digging this up, it takes a certain kind of inquistive bastard to find things like this. I’m glad you stumbled on it.