Comments on: E-I-E-I-O http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/11/13/e-i-e-i-o/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:17:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Klyith http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/11/13/e-i-e-i-o/#comment-289 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:56:56 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/11/13/e-i-e-i-o/#comment-289 nmr8 - it can be done with user scripts like the Firefox extension Greasemonkey. <a href="http://www.userscripts.org/" rel="nofollow">Userscripts.org</a> has a few examples, most of which seem to work on the same principles. I use scripts that remove <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/876" rel="nofollow">about.com</a> (wikipedia ripoff) or <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1898" rel="nofollow">experts-exchange.com</a> from google search results. Copying a script and editing for a different domain would be easy. But I doubt you can do the same for link farms, there are simply too many domains in play. It's normally better to just let google do the pagerank thing. If you are doing searches where link farms can actually compete with real results (searches for torrents and warez have this problem) it is better to just use a "specialty" search engine. nmr8 - it can be done with user scripts like the Firefox extension Greasemonkey. Userscripts.org has a few examples, most of which seem to work on the same principles. I use scripts that remove about.com (wikipedia ripoff) or experts-exchange.com from google search results. Copying a script and editing for a different domain would be easy.

But I doubt you can do the same for link farms, there are simply too many domains in play. It’s normally better to just let google do the pagerank thing. If you are doing searches where link farms can actually compete with real results (searches for torrents and warez have this problem) it is better to just use a “specialty” search engine.

]]> by: Chris McMahon http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/11/13/e-i-e-i-o/#comment-288 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:09:22 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/11/13/e-i-e-i-o/#comment-288 Dan, Any idea how to combat a spammer using your address as the sender? I've been getting bounce messages and complaints about sending spam for weeks now and it's annoying as hell. The spam seems to be sent from a number of different IPs (none of them mine), so either my address has been sold to a number of spammers, or it's being used from a botnet. Any ideas? Dan,
Any idea how to combat a spammer using your address as the sender? I’ve been getting bounce messages and complaints about sending spam for weeks now and it’s annoying as hell.

The spam seems to be sent from a number of different IPs (none of them mine), so either my address has been sold to a number of spammers, or it’s being used from a botnet.

Any ideas?

]]> by: nmr8 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/11/13/e-i-e-i-o/#comment-287 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 03:18:46 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/11/13/e-i-e-i-o/#comment-287 i wonder if it would be hard to customize google searches to not consider a given set of domains. i wonder if it would be hard to customize google searches to not consider a given set of domains.

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