Posted on 02/22/2009 5:58:58 PM PST by Richard Poe
Likewise if they expect referrer logging. I alway disable that.
Great stuff.
One more step towards fascist proofing.
The scroogle search site is 4 times faster than Google. Man it is FAST!
I wasn’t implying anything about the mentioned sites. If you want more search engine traffic, read the search engines’ documentation on how to get it.
I once administered a far more hated high-traffic site than yours. It was a truly conservative anti-feminism, anti-romanticism site. ...even published analyses and citations about Susan B. Anthony’s work against traditional family structure, religion and capitalism (also Beecher, Hull, Woodhull, all). The PLA (Chinese government) hit it a few hundred thousand times, then complained to our US Government about us violating “women’s” “human” “rights.” Threats from Democrats and Republicans of the social left were common. Academics with the CWA even argued (unsuccessfully) against the publications.
Yes, and if you want more privacy, do
But if you want that search engine proxy to continue, donate to them. I have no personal pecuniary (monetary) interest in that site, BTW. ...just think it’s cool.
And you’re welcome!
If you would please continue to indulge me, and I appreciate your patience, how exactly would they know where I came to your site from? I don’t allow their scripts to run on my computer and I don’t allow referrer logging, so it seems to me that they would have difficulty tracking connections from my network. If they are doing so I’d really like to know how they do it so that I can put a stop to it.
BTW, I read ALL, not just specific forums.
Which is truly frightening!
Seriously though. Scroogle is really the fastest search engine I have ever used. It doesn’t have to record all
your personal details or download ads onto your PC.
It just zaps you the bare bones search return!
I really do appreciate the reference link
it makes a huge difference.
With the Obama fascist web patrol on line, it will behoove all freepers to minimize their web footprint.
I may even go to a proxy IP address set up.
We should set up a thread on how freepers can minmize their web spoor traces.
The Scroogle Scraper is GREAT! ;-)
I do quite a bit of SEO work and this may be the result of the absence of rel=”nofollow” tags for outbound links.
Google is trying to limit link “spamming” by “asking” forums, the developers of forum/blog/cms, etc., software to include the rel=”nofollow” tags.
It became common practice to “spam” forums with links to your site to build “link popularity”, traffic and to ultimately rank higher in the search engines.
This often works against Google’s relevancy goals.
I only looked at the source briefly but I didn’t find any such code.
Maybe Jim has another method.
My two cents.
You aren’t talking about click-throughs from ads are you? I’m not sure, but I don’t think FR displays any ads. The reason I’m not sure is that I don’t ever see any ads from any site. There are ways to avoid that. If that isn’t how you expect Google to track me, I still don’t understand what you’re getting at.
>>>I do hope you aren’t in the crowd who wants the news articles about the polls regarding attitudes towards Darwin relegated to RELIGION. BTW, I read ALL, not just specific forums.
I also read ALL. I’m open to looking at any views. But yes, if the spam is a sermon on Genesis masquerading as a story on Darwin, RELIGION seems the place for it.
More generally these blog editorials are not NEWS by any stretch of the imagination. Placing these spamming sermons on equal footing with NEWS and superior to the various threads on actual science which are automatically pushed off into CHAT is humiliating to this site’s credibility, not to mention violations of it’s own rules.
If the powers that be choose to permit and encourage this, you have to expect some fallout. I don’t know if colleges are or are not filtering FR. But if the censors can point to this it certainly would make it easier for them to do so.
Google counts but doesn’t give “credit” for all links coming into your site.
Google knows where the hits came from. It just isn’t including them in its algorithm.
Take the same site and examine the difference in the numbers of incoming links or backlinks using Yahoo! and then Google!
Google doesn’t list NEARLY as many as Yahoo!.
Google is “picky” about what incoming links are considered relevant to their relevancy goals—ugh!
Remember, people, Google is a PRIVATE company.
It has no obligation to list, link or promote your site.
I think it does a good job at a VERY difficult undertaking.
Even with something like 150 PHD’s on the payroll it is a monumental task to deliver the number of accurate search results and services that they provide.
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