Google, does pickup up these threads here - so be careful

[pupoholic]

google is big brother!

[corduroyew]

Thats how I found this place.

[Stan H]

Pardon my ignorance but what are we being careful about?

[black_labb]

Originally Posted by Stan H

Pardon my ignorance but what are we being careful about?

in his original post it was basically saying that google scanned the contents of these forums, so that when people were slagging off on a product or someone, a possible customer or someone just checking thigns out may be directed to this forum and read some of the stuff we're posting giving any known people on this website a bad rep, aswell as who we are slagging off. there was more to the statement than that but that was what the gist of it was.

[NightWinder]

Whats slaggin?

[bob p]

i think its the nature of the internet Beast that if you type anything anywhere, its going to get Googled. if you want to avoid Big Brother, there are some steps that the site host can take:

the web pages that we read here are created dynamically from an SQL database every time that you request a page. the pages are created with a template, and the text data is assembled to be sent out to the client.

if the web master wants pages not to be googled, there are simple statements that should be placed in the HTML headers of the templates that get used to generate the pages. the NOINDEX, NOARCHIVE, and NOFOLLOW directives will tell search engines, respectively, not to index the web pages, not to cache the web pages, and not to migrate down the tree of web links to other pages on the site.

even though that's how web coding is supposed to work, Google seems to view your data as if they have some right to it, and their robots/spiders have been known to ignore the directives created by the web host, so that Google assimilates your data without your permission.

there are two cures to this problem: 1. close the board so that new users can not read until they register; this can stop the bots because the pages are not longer public. 2. use the server's firewall to drop all traffic coming from any IP address known to be used by Google; this stops Google dead in its tracks. the only problem is that it will take quite a bit of time to assemble the list of IP addresses to ban -- when Google fails to spider your site from the USA, they'll try to do it from elsewhere in the world. the good news is that there is a coalition of webmasters who share Google IP lists.

one might ask why anyone would host a site that they want to remain unrecognized by Google. in some respects, its one of those "if you have to ask you'll never know" kind of questions.

[black_labb]

Originally Posted by NightWinder

Whats slaggin?

pretty much insulting or something. ie. "joe blow is full of shit and has a crappy product"

[NightWinder]

K....want to understand the thread. Blacky, are you from the states? I just ask cause I never heard it befor. I'm also somewhat computer illiterate, but learning very fast. Was On dial up til a month or 2 ago. Thaks for clarifying.
Stan!!! Wuzzsup!! LOL

[mick]

I used to go out slaggin , but now I'm married...in case you think google aint watching , look at the google ads for epoxy and loctite in the ads by google at the top of this page , funny they should pop up with those products ..wooooooooooospoooooooooookyheh?

BB is watching..

Mick

[black_labb]

Originally Posted by NightWinder

K....want to understand the thread. Blacky, are you from the states? I just ask cause I never heard it befor. I'm also somewhat computer illiterate, but learning very fast. Was On dial up til a month or 2 ago. Thaks for clarifying.
Stan!!! Wuzzsup!! LOL

im from australia, originally from canada but ive lived here since i was 11 (18 now). i thing i probably picked that word up on another message board mainly, but it didnt seem foreign to me.

[Stan H]

shhhh...the walls have ears

How's it goin NightWinder

[bob p]

Originally Posted by pupoholic

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google is big brother!

FYI, it is considered exceptionally poor form to delete your posts -- especially so if you are a thread starter. don't do it.

[mick]

I would think it's an UK thing , we used it all the time to describe giving someone a hard time about something or to pick on something they do or did...ie gave my mate a good slagging because his GF is/was a pig..

Mick