{"id":2950,"date":"2004-11-12T09:31:47","date_gmt":"2004-11-13T01:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/12\/googlebomb-spam-attack\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T13:56:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:56:43","slug":"googlebomb-spam-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/12\/googlebomb-spam-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Googlebomb Spam Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9839,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Googlebomb&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260208125825\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Googlebomb&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 22:09:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 22:09:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9840,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/mamamusings.net&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310221303\\\/https:\\\/\\\/mamamusings.net\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9841,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/mamamusings.net\\\/archives\\\/2004\\\/11\\\/12\\\/i_suppose_i_should_be_flattered.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20241015154012\\\/http:\\\/\\\/mamamusings.net\\\/archives\\\/2004\\\/11\\\/12\\\/i_suppose_i_should_be_flattered.php&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 22:09:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 22:09:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Looks like someone&#8217;s come up with a new, not-really-all-that-clever use for comment spam: using it to attempt to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Googlebomb\" title=\"Googlebomb\">Googlebomb<\/a> someone that they&#8217;re ticked off at.<\/p>\n<p>The following showed up in my inbox three times, with three different IP addresses:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  IP Address: 202.175.26.151<br \/>\n  Name: Whiny Communist Bitch<br \/>\n  Email Address: commie\\@mamamusings.net<br \/>\n  URL: http:\/\/www.mamamusings.net<\/p>\n<p>  Comment:<\/p>\n<p>  I just can&#8217;t shut my pie hole.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Normally, that&#8217;d be a sure sign of the standard comment spam, but I was pretty sure that mamamusings.net was another weblogger, so I <a href=\"http:\/\/mamamusings.net\/\" title=\"mamamusings\">headed over<\/a> to be sure, and to give her the details.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/mamamusings.net\/archives\/2004\/11\/12\/i_suppose_i_should_be_flattered.php\" title=\"i suppose i should be flattered...\">she already knows<\/a>, which is good.<\/p>\n<p>Heartening to know we can all be so mature, isn&#8217;t it? Didn&#8217;t &#8220;commie&#8221; go out of vogue as an insult a couple decades ago, anyway?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DAmos, Tori%2526albumTerm=More Pink - The B-Sides%2526songTerm=Honey%26partnerId%3D30\">Honey<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DAmos, Tori%26partnerId%3D30\">Amos, Tori<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DAmos, Tori%2526albumTerm=More Pink - The B-Sides%26partnerId%3D30\">More Pink &#8211; The B-Sides<\/a><\/em> (1994, 3:49).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like someone&#8217;s come up with a new, not-really-all-that-clever use for comment spam: using it to attempt to Googlebomb someone that they&#8217;re ticked off at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[599],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}