{"id":2480,"date":"2004-05-11T18:11:33","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T08:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/12\/google-bits-redactions-and-spam\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T09:38:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:38:18","slug":"google-bits-redactions-and-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/11\/google-bits-redactions-and-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Google bits: redactions and spam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two interesting Google<\/a>-related bits today.<\/p>\n

Firstly, a paragraph about outsourcing jobs mysteriously disappeared from the Google Weblog<\/a> at some point during the day. Mark Pilgrim pointed this out<\/a> (along with \/.<\/a>, MeFi<\/a>, and Hello Typepad<\/a>) and quite rightly took Google to task for the unremarked changes:<\/p>\n

\n This kind of revisionist history is unacceptable, regardless of who does it. If you don’t want it saved for all time, don’t publish it on the Internet. Putting “blog” on the top of the page does not absolve you of all responsibility.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NetNewsWire<\/a>‘s “show changes” feature caught the edits, though, so here’s a quick screen capture showing just how the post was reworded:<\/p>\n

\"Google's<\/a><\/p>\n

The second bit is more on the amusing side, and has less to do directly with Google. I got a piece of comment spam earlier that, when I looked at it, made me laugh, simply because in an effort to make it look almost<\/em> like a real comment, the spammer had mixed links in with a paragraph of real text. It just so happens that the paragraph they chose was one from Google’s website, discussing how pages are indexed after being submitted to Google. I’ve replaced the links with bolded text in the following snippet, of course:<\/p>\n

\n When a URL is submitted to Google, Sex Toy Shop<\/strong> we look for it in our Hotel Booking<\/strong> next crawl. If Low Interest Credit Card<\/strong> you’ve already submitted your Buy Cialis<\/strong> URL, your site could easily Atkins Diet<\/strong> appear in our new index, which will go Nude Celebrity<\/strong> up when the current crawl is completed. However, Online Casinos<\/strong> if no other site links to yours, it Dating Personals<\/strong> may be difficult for our crawler to find Tag Watch<\/strong> you. Conversely, if many sites link to Seiko Watch<\/strong> your page, there is a good Car Hire<\/strong> chance we will find you without your submitting your Register Domain Name<\/strong> URL. Occasionally, websites are not reachable Ladies Watches<\/strong> when we try to crawl them because of Coral Bookmaker<\/strong> network or hosting problems.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It almost<\/em> makes sense when you read it…<\/p>\n

iTunes:<\/strong> “Another One Bites the Dust (Wyclef Jean)” by Queen feat. Free\/Jean, Wyclef\/Pras from the album Small Soldiers<\/em> (1998, 4:22).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got a piece of comment spam earlier that, when I looked at it, made me laugh, simply because in an effort to make it look almost like a real comment, the spammer had mixed links in with a paragraph of real text. It just so happens that the paragraph they chose was one from Google’s website, discussing how pages are indexed after being submitted to Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2040],"tags":[39,599],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}