<![CDATA[Google cracks down on pesky humans - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Google cracks down on pesky humans - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Google cracks down on pesky humans]]> For future reference: It turns out someone on the same subnet as me runs a program that does a few Google pings to collect some random data. From the tiny size of his samples, it's more likely Google is trying to block click fraud than metacrawlers.

Paul Boutin

]]> <![CDATA[Google cracks down on pesky humans]]> @doll-shaped-engine: What makes you think the googlekind aren't wagging at work?

matto

]]> <![CDATA[Google cracks down on pesky humans]]> @doll-shaped-engine: the people who are doing this are probably smarter than we are, or we'd have jobs at google and they'd be reading valleywag at work

Google may turn out to be the best example yet of the alpha fallacy: that bringing together the best and brightest will lead us to utopia. Fake Steve Jobs wrote a classic on this question:
[fakesteve.blogspot.com]

I understand Robert McNamara and Paul Wolfowitz -- two of the best and brightest -- are candidates for Google's board.

ifstone

]]> <![CDATA[Google cracks down on pesky humans]]> the people who are doing this are probably smarter than we are, or we'd have jobs at google and they'd be reading valleywag at work.

considering the olympic torch is currently on the last leg of its worldwide publicity tour, i think it's safe to say interest in cybershenanigans is probably pretty high right now.

Gosh we get cranky when the internet don't deliver. Six lashes internet, and if you lose count I'm starting over.

doll-shaped-engine

]]> <![CDATA[Google cracks down on pesky humans]]> matto: Cyrus Farivar created my Wikipedia page as a cover for creating his own afterwards. After I reported on Jimmy Wales in March, some other Wikipedian tried to get the page deleted. But Wikipedia busted him for using a sock puppet account. The raw human drama never ends over there.

Paul Boutin

]]> <![CDATA[Google cracks down on pesky humans]]> @ifstone: You misspelled "hair-apparent".
Also, your Mossberg tie-in was pretty weak.

matto

]]> <![CDATA[Google cracks down on pesky humans]]> All I did was type my own name into the search box on Firefox

Boutin does this 200 times a day, which is why Google thought he was a clickfraudbot. He's worried because it turns out that "boutin" is Polynesian French for "Goatberg heir-apparent," but he has no idea when the 3G iPhone is due out or where Mossberg picks up his envelopes of cash from Steve Jobs (or how many bits there are in a byte).

ifstone

]]> <![CDATA[Google cracks down on pesky humans]]> or certain viruses - we had an out break last year/18 months ago.

Mouser_UK

]]> <![CDATA[Google cracks down on pesky humans]]> [www.imilly.com]

Apparently cookie anonymizers do that.

Snarkosaurus

]]> <![CDATA[Google cracks down on pesky humans]]> @Paul Boutin: Wow, you've got your very own Wikipedia page. I hope for your sake that there aren't any factual errors on it- I hear getting them fixed can be a pain in the butt.

matto

]]> <![CDATA[Google cracks down on pesky humans]]> @Paul Boutin: There is only one captcha, and that is Captcha-22.

tootingbec

]]> <![CDATA[Google cracks down on pesky humans]]> I just wish I could read the squiggly blue letters with more certainty. Maybe I'm really a Python script.

Paul Boutin

]]> <![CDATA[Google cracks down on pesky humans]]> yes. it's a block and tackle approach that works for barring tor-like clients and ip ranges (think whole country that rhymes with mina)...when it comes to bending over for foreign parties, elgoog takes the cake...makes jerry yang look wimpy...

ResearchZilla

]]> <![CDATA[Google cracks down on pesky humans]]> I think this means you failed the Turing Test.

Perhaps you should try searching for something like 'TELL ME HOW DOES "paul boutin" MAKE YOU FEEL?' or maybe 'WHY ARE YOU INTERESTED IN WHETHER OR NOT I AM A COMPUTER VIRUS OR SPYWARE APPLICATION?'

sgndave

]]> <![CDATA[Google cracks down on pesky humans]]> Are you using an anonymizer?

Google horks like that on EVERY SINGLE SEARCH if you use Tor. I'm convinced it's to keep those pesky oppressed citizens of countries like China from accidentally getting around the Google-approved government censorship.

CyndyA

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