Has Google been hacked?

In article ews.net,
"Mike T." wrote:

"JAD" wrote in message
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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 Google
UK and got the same results. -Dave


http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+%2...&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

Have you ever heard of "spam farms" ?

If I load up a web page, with megabytes of common phrases, I
can raise the priority of my web site. Now, if I set up a few
thousand web sites like that, perhaps hosted on a small number
of computers, and each one has some adverts on it, I can make
big money by tricking you to click on the link. Usually the
nonsense host name in the URL, is the giveaway that you are
entering a "farm".

A good spam farm will harvest common English phrases right
out of USENET postings. So the more you repeat your common
phrases in USENET, the more likely it is that a spam farm
will add the phrase to their web page.

I find on Altavista, if I do a search that has some relevant
links, the spam farms occur further down the list of returned
results. If I search for something that doesn't occur on a
legitimate site, then all I get is spam farm listings.

The people who run the search engines are aware of
the existence of spam farms (as it fills their server database
with garbage), but it is an ongoing battle between the
"farmers" and the search engine tuners. And the "farmers"
appear to be mostly winning the battle.

This might be a place to start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_chocolate

HTH,
Paul

Mike T. wrote:
"JAD" wrote in message
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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 Google
UK and got the same results. -Dave

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+%2...&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=...s=&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.

1. your search is not on first page of results. on the first page enough
good search results pop up

2. google isnt hacked its just tricked into thinking those pl-sites are
"useful" and this is be done since years. normally google knows about
and sometime later those sites disappear again.

Mike T. schrieb:
"JAD" wrote in message
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...milk+chocolate




"Mike T." wrote in message
reenews.net...
I just ran several searches on google, from their "advanced" search page,
and NONE of them gave me any useful links at all.

The last search I ran was for exact phrase "the history of milk
chocolate".
I got 184 totally OFF-topic results, which included (my favorite) "used
ultralight aircraft for sale in Australia". Oh, and all the links end in
.pl

It kind of looks like Google has been hacked. -Dave



Odd. I just ran the search again. AGAIN I got mostly off-topic links, most
of which the url ends in ".pl". Again, has google been hacked? -Dave

http://www.google.com/search?q=+%22h...&start=40&sa=N

is not true. my google lists his links too but they appear on later
resultpages not on first. its normal and nothing strange. just some
linkfarms on .pl domains.

all other results appear normal.

Robbie McFerren schrieb:
Jim Strathmeyer wrote:
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Mike T. 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.

I agree 110% with this malware issue.

I tried the same search on Yahoo.com
"the history of milk chocolate".

I got all good results.

PJ

"David Maynard" wrote in message
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| Mike T. wrote:
| "JAD" wrote in message
| ...
|
| 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
Google
| UK and got the same results. -Dave
|
|
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+%2...&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=...s=&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.

Interesting Ian wrote:

"David Maynard" wrote in message
...
| Mike T. wrote:
| "JAD" wrote in message
| ...
|
| 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
Google
| UK and got the same results. -Dave
|
|
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+%2...&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=...s=&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.

On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:23:40 -0400, Mike T. wrote:


"Jim Strathmeyer" wrote in
message ...
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Mike T. 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=+%22h...&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.

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