Feb - 16th
Is Google Referrer Spamming Too Now?
Posted at 8:59 am | Filed Under Google, lackofmeds, MSN, On The Ball-ness, search engines, SEO
Yesterday a friend of mine sent me a section of her traffic logs that were showing some odd information. According to what was recorded there her brand new, as of yet unlinked-to website was ranking on the first page of Google for the single keyword, [free]. If she actually had managed to rank for that [...]
Aug - 25th
Quick Poll… Who Here Wants To Bing Jessica Biel?
Posted at 1:27 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, lackofmeds, MSN, search engines, Social Media
Today CNN wrote a piece about the “‘Most dangerous’ celebs to search for online”. The article discussed which celebrity searches that were most likely to lead to sites infected with spyware. It was an interesting enough story, but what caught my eye were the two opening sentences: Be cautious if you plan to Bing Jessica [...]
Mar - 3rd
Google Senior Vice Pres Dumps $8.9 Million Of GOOG Stock
Posted at 8:57 am | Filed Under blogthropology, Google, MSN
Last month Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Senior Vice President, David Drummond, made a public statement about Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo, in which he characterized the move as one that rose “troubling questions”. A couple of weeks later, Google co-founder Sergey Brin echoed that sentiment, stating that he found elements of the potential union between Microsoft and [...]
Nov - 22nd
Microsoft Starts Covering Their Ass On Rogue Bot Intrusions
Posted at 12:08 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, MSN, On The Ball-ness, scams, SEO
A quick update to the Microsoft Rogue Bot Fiasco. It looks like now they have correctly DNS’d the IP range that they are sending these bogus requests from. Previously, all of the IP’s (which I first mentioned were all coming from the 65.55.165.* block) reverse DNS’d to names such as bl2sch1081901.phx.gbl. They have apparently changed [...]
Nov - 13th
Microsoft Needs To Quit Fucking With My AdSense Scripts
Posted at 3:13 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, MSN, On The Ball-ness, scams, SEO
A few months back I discovered that I was being hit with massive amounts of referrer spam. It was a little odd, because the phrases weren’t made to look like I had links coming from some sleazy little viagra or porn site… no, these were made to look like I was ranking for all kinds [...]
