Posted by Melanie Phung on Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Sebastian is running a little test (I love tests!) on whether Google indexes references to password-protected content. So in the name of science, I’m happy to link to his collection of SEO Porn.
He warns the page is NSFW so I haven’t looked, but when I think of “SEO Porn” it makes me think of how I use the term “data porn.” I.e., it’s not optimizing porn pages (which would be Porn SEO), but rather something that only SEO geeks would drool over — like a vast collection of Matt Cutts blogcasts where we get to watch him do site audits or something.
Update: February 1, 2008
The result: MSN sucks
Update 2, March 3, 2008:
Sweet, I rank #2 and #3 in Google for the term [SEO porn].
Posted by Melanie Phung on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 11:52 am
Thanks to SEO Hack for this tidbit:
Software engineers told Fortune magazine in November that they are constructing a filter to eliminate stupid messages to online forums and bulletin boards. Lead researcher Gabriel Ortiz said his team had compiled a database of idiotic comments and that the new software would detect unintelligible remarks and either alert the writer to fix them or divert the message to the recipient’s “junk mail.” Easy dumb messages to filter: those with the tacky, immature repetition of a closing consonant, e.g., “That thing is amazinggggg!!!” More difficult: how to treat sarcasm and irony, in that smart writers sometimes deliberately use dumb statements to mock other writers.
Posted by Melanie Phung on Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 7:05 pm
To make up for yesterday’s bad advice, a real tip: did you know that you can type “inurl:password” into the Google search box to find all URLs that contain a password string? Hopefully you’re not entering your passwords into unencrypted forms, but the “inurl” operator is just one of many tools available to searchers and hackers alike.
And it’s one of the examples given in the useful but not-too-overwhelming October 4 SEO Chat article: Hiding Your Sensitive Data From Google and the World.
A Richness of Embarrassment
Don’t worry; the powers that be over at the Googleplex are aware of the security issues. CNet published sensitive information on Google exec Eric Schmidt in July — to demonstrate how easy it is to find such information using the Google search engine. In response to which the search giant blacklisted CNET reporters for a year. (What got less publicity is that Google eventually backed down after a few months.)
