Has Google been hacked?
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From: Interesting Ian on 10 Apr 2006 11:23 "David Maynard" <nospam(a)private.net> wrote in message news:1238s73mchci6c6(a)corp.supernews.com... | Mike T. wrote: | > "JAD" <kapasitor(a)earthcharter.net> wrote in message | > news:ujTYf.231$Lt.21(a)fe04.lga... | > | >>google toolbar installed? | >>you physically looked in the temp folders and deleted ALL cookies | >>check your 'hosts' file | >> | > | > | > It has nothing to do with my computer. Someone else ran a search on | > UK and got the same results. -Dave | > | > http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+%22history+of+milk+chocolate%22&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&start=20&sa=N | > | > The above is not a search that I ran, it was run on a different computer, on | > the UK google web site. Note that most of the results are off-topic, and | > hosted in Poland. It's not my equipment, and it's certainly not any | > software on my equipment. -Dave | > | > | | No, that isn't the search the UK poster posted. His was this | | http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_q=&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=history+of+milk+chocolate&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=&safe=images | | And his does not produce the pl results yours does. | | Also, whenever I try inputting the search phrase you use I get normal | results. It's only when using the LINK you post that the PL results occur. | No. My search result is absolutely identical to his.
From: David Maynard on 11 Apr 2006 07:42 Interesting Ian wrote: > "David Maynard" <nospam(a)private.net> wrote in message > news:1238s73mchci6c6(a)corp.supernews.com... > | Mike T. wrote: > | > "JAD" <kapasitor(a)earthcharter.net> wrote in message > | > news:ujTYf.231$Lt.21(a)fe04.lga... > | > > | >>google toolbar installed? > | >>you physically looked in the temp folders and deleted ALL cookies > | >>check your 'hosts' file > | >> > | > > | > > | > It has nothing to do with my computer. Someone else ran a search on > | > UK and got the same results. -Dave > | > > | > > http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+%22history+of+milk+chocolate%22&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&start=20&sa=N > | > > | > The above is not a search that I ran, it was run on a different > computer, on > | > the UK google web site. Note that most of the results are off-topic, > and > | > hosted in Poland. It's not my equipment, and it's certainly not any > | > software on my equipment. -Dave > | > > | > > | > | No, that isn't the search the UK poster posted. His was this > | > | > http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_q=&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=history+of+milk+chocolate&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=&safe=images > | > | And his does not produce the pl results yours does. > | > | Also, whenever I try inputting the search phrase you use I get normal > | results. It's only when using the LINK you post that the PL results occur. > | > > No. My search result is absolutely identical to his. > > Yours may be but don't try to tell me what *my* search results were. Those two strings are different and gave me different results, as I noted.
From: H. Seldon on 11 Apr 2006 08:12
On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:23:40 -0400, Mike T. wrote: > > "Jim Strathmeyer" <strathWHATEVERIGETENOUGHSPAMANYWAYS(a)ipass.net> wrote in > message news:FaCdnS-FLemNcq7ZRVn-rw(a)adelphia.com... >> In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Mike T. <noway(a)nohow.not> wrote: >>> It kind of looks like Google has been hacked. -Dave >> >> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 >> >> Because of this, and the fact that other people don't seem to be having >> the same experience that you have, the most likely solution is that you >> have some sort of malware. >> >> -- >> Jim Strathmeyer > > OK, well my antivirus software was updated today. I ran a full system > scan with nothing found. I updated ad-aware with the latest definitions > today. It found a few cookies and deleted them. Nothing else was found. > I cleared ALL stored information out of firefox, rebooted the system and > tried again. Again I got mostly results with urls ending in .pl > > http://www.google.com/search?q=+%22history+of+milk+chocolate%22&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&start=30&sa=N > > I did get some relevant results, but it is really ODD that most of the > results are off-topic, and hosted in Poland? -Dave Odd indeed. All I get are references to the history of chocolate. **shrug** No off-topic garbage at all. -- ____________________________________________________________ Kubuntu, try it and Windows will be a thing of the past. (Ubuntu is a humanist ideology from Sub-Saharan Africa) H. Seldon I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called "Brightness" but it doesn't work. |