KISS_Racing Posted November 16, 2006 Report Share Posted November 16, 2006 Has anyone else noticed that Google.com is logged in as a User? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie Posted November 16, 2006 Report Share Posted November 16, 2006 Strange... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickHolt Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 Go through the member list. Lot's of strange names there. Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrungot Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 Google pings many sites to index the content.. to update their search engines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
direct-flo Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 a bot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tps48 Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 Maybe not a bot. I saw on user list Google.com contacting member via e-mail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KISS_Racing Posted November 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 here is what i found interesting and why i asked. the Google.com is NOT underlined. it is almost like it's part of the New forum software. oh well..... on edit: the mystery continues. i looked as Nick suggested, Google.com isn't a member! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickHolt Posted November 18, 2006 Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 Kiss, When you use a search engine, such as Google.Com, how do you suppose the information that you see presented to you all nice and neat got there? Google.com visits your website too - along with every other website it can locate. The difference is that now you can see all the bots as well as all the other "guests" that visit TXSZ, whereas with the old software the bots were not showing up on the list of people online. Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KISS_Racing Posted November 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 nick, thanks for educating me on what goes on behind the scenes and what we aren't used to seeing. i can now add this to my resume and next time someone asks, i can act like i know what i'm talking about... folks mystery solved thanks to nick... oh nick, i always thought that a website owner/company had to pay somone to do submissions for them to search engines like google, lycos, dog pile and etc.... see i did learn something! thanks again..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazyhorse Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 i'm sorry , i'm coming into the conversation late (and i'm illterate).............what the hell is a bot and should i be concerned? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kn1ghtblade Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 Just a little tid bit of info, I just did a test, and now when searching on google for texas auto racing this board is the very first link like it shows, and when just searching for Texas Racing its the first one on the 3rd page mainly due to all the horse and dog racing sites.... I know before it was alot further back in the search engine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budman Posted February 23, 2007 Report Share Posted February 23, 2007 Well whoever he is, he don't never post nothin' on here. I'm pretty sure I caught a glimpse of him tryin' to sneak a peek over my firewall the other day. I wouldn't trust him if I were you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CEL73 Posted February 23, 2007 Report Share Posted February 23, 2007 I hate it when people try to peak over my firewall!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KISS_Racing Posted February 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2007 this is one of the only forums I don't get port scans from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickHolt Posted February 23, 2007 Report Share Posted February 23, 2007 this is one of the only forums I don't get port scans from. That's because I hand screen every registration. I get between 10 and 25 registrations a day that I deny. Takes about 5 minutes to screen the IP address, look up the host, search various PHP sites for a match to the registration and run the screen name and email addy through the various search engines. I also require email responses from most new registrations. You will also notice that (knock on wood) that we have no problem with spammers for the same reason. Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rookie49 Posted February 24, 2007 Report Share Posted February 24, 2007 Good Job Nick. Now I know why this site is so clean. Now if you can just get a spell checker for some of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakdad Posted December 2, 2007 Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 I didn't know that either. Thanks Again Nick!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickHolt Posted December 2, 2007 Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 I didn't know that either. Thanks Again Nick!! Unfortunately, the number of spammers trying to register at TXSZ has increased dramatically over the past couple of months. Apparently they're not happy with just messing up your email. They're moving on to where they can get multiple reads instead of just one at a time. Here's one of the tools I use to check IP addresses. http://www.fspamlist.com/files/export.txt Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakdad Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 Man, that list is endless! Being a computer illiterate, I truly appreciate anyone that can copy & paste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WIKKED-RACING Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 To who has no computer skills at how google gets it's information its whats called a spyder. Excuse the coding at the bottom .. You wont understand it if you dont know how to code. Spiders and robots are programs that browse the web automatically, usually for gathering and indexing links or other information. XML and its grandparent SGML are attempts to instill meaningful order into information. With them, single documents become leaves of databases. A collection of pages can be displayed as HTML easily through conversion or used for indexed searching or even generating entirely new documents. The Internet has always been full of data, just never with any real meta-organization. You can think of the Internet itself as the single most important database in existence, but without it all being in a formatted language like XML or some other rigid scheme, it’s not a valuable database. Information without order, indices and strong categorization, reduces quickly to noise. The real value of the Internet is found in its surfeit of plain text, no offense to the porn industry. The one arena where no one debates the supremacy of Perl is text parsing and manipulating. Therefore, it’s no real stretch to set some Perl loose on the Internet, with the right instructions, and find the value in that great unkeyed DB. So let’s do something really valuable with the WWW! Let’s find a celebrity’s birthday. We’ll pick Jimmy Page to dull the irony somewhat. We are using simple regexes to check for birthdays. Much better ones could be crafted for serious applications. Code #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; #--------------------------------------------------------------------- use WWW::Spyder; # our crawler use URI::Escape; # to properly escape our query for the search engine #--------------------------------------------------------------------- @ARGV == 2 or usage(); my $spyder = WWW::Spyder->new(sleep_base => 20, exit_on => { pages => 30, time => '1min'}); my $name = join(' ',@ARGV); $spyder->terms($name, qr/birthdays?/i); $spyder->seed( 'http://www.google.com/search?q=' . uri_escape(qq{"$name"}) ); my $bday; while ( my $page = $spyder->crawl ) { print "Check-->> ", $page->url, "\n"; # try to extract the birthday here ( $bday ) = $page->text =~ m,$name\s+was born on ([^.]+\d\d+),sio; last if $bday; ( $bday ) = $page->text =~ m,$name\'s\s+birthday is ([^.]+\d\d+),sio; last if $bday; } if ( $bday ) { print "\n ${name}'s birthday seems to be: $bday\n\n"; } else { print "\n Sorry, couldn't find ${name}'s birthday quickly.\n\n"; } exit 0; #===================================================================== sub usage { my ( $tool ) = $0 =~ m,([^\/]+)$,; die <<KettleChips; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- USAGE: $tool [Proper Name] I will try to find the birthday of someone famous if you will please give me his/her name. I can only do two word names right now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- KettleChips } #===================================================================== Usage jinx[96]>spyder-birthday Jimmy Page Output Check-->> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Jimmy%20Page%22 Check-->> http://www.led-zeppelin.com/ Check-->> http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/Bands_and... Check-->> http://home.earthlink.net/~juliannwh/ Jimmy Page's birthday seems to be: January 9, 1944 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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