Comments on: Google spam – aka I’m back https://grey-panther.net/2007/12/google-spam-aka-im-back.html Just another WordPress site Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:08:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: padraig https://grey-panther.net/2007/12/google-spam-aka-im-back.html#comment-758 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:08:01 +0000 https://grey-panther.net/?p=796#comment-758 Welcome back!

]]> By: Cd-MaN https://grey-panther.net/2007/12/google-spam-aka-im-back.html#comment-760 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:50:09 +0000 https://grey-panther.net/?p=796#comment-760 Yes, but it’s not hard to filter that out :-).

If I recall correctly there was a recent story where Google said that they were keeping the “I’m feeling lucky” button to show that they’re “hip”.

]]> By: kurt wismer https://grey-panther.net/2007/12/google-spam-aka-im-back.html#comment-761 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:03:54 +0000 https://grey-panther.net/?p=796#comment-761 “if the user has a web-based mail client (Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, GMail, etc), the Referer header will point to that instead of a Google domain,”

umm – if it’s gmail the referer will be a google domain…

i don’t remember the story behind the “i’m feeling lucky” button (i know there was one) but maybe it’s time to get rid of it… i can’t imagine it’s really that useful and frankly, my gut tells me that visiting a site without at least knowing the url beforehand is potentially a security risk (much like the criticisms that have been leveled against tinyurl recently)…

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