Comments on: Name Scrapers http://www.hornlo.org/isotropic/2008/07/08/name-scrapers/ Where ever you go, there you are. Tue, 25 May 2010 15:16:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: hornlo http://www.hornlo.org/isotropic/2008/07/08/name-scrapers/comment-page-1/#comment-328 hornlo Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:14:23 +0000 http://www.hornlo.org/isotropic/?p=121#comment-328 Your (anonymous) search text can be discovered from just analyzing search hits, whether the link is followed or not. Say you search for "alphabet soup in brass bowls for linux lovers" -- some of my linux pages will likely show up somewhere in your search results, and your search string (not identifying you) will show up in my stats because of that match, even though you didn't follow any of the links. I think that's kind of a weird combination, but there could be a whole subculture into this. Maybe I'll put "brass" and "alphabet soup" on a few pages to suck in some of them as visitors. For instance, after my <a href="/isotropic/2008/04/22/jot-and-tittle/" rel="nofollow">Jot and Tittle</a> post, I got some really interesting search hits involving "s_k_..." and "animal" (Turkish-specific characters removed so <em>this</em> page doesn't match). For fun, check out <a href="http://www.google.com/trends" rel="nofollow">Google Trends</a>. Your (anonymous) search text can be discovered from just analyzing search hits, whether the link is followed or not.

Say you search for “alphabet soup in brass bowls for linux lovers” — some of my linux pages will likely show up somewhere in your search results, and your search string (not identifying you) will show up in my stats because of that match, even though you didn’t follow any of the links.

I think that’s kind of a weird combination, but there could be a whole subculture into this. Maybe I’ll put “brass” and “alphabet soup” on a few pages to suck in some of them as visitors.

For instance, after my Jot and Tittle post, I got some really interesting search hits involving “s_k_…” and “animal” (Turkish-specific characters removed so this page doesn’t match).

For fun, check out Google Trends.

]]> By: Terri http://www.hornlo.org/isotropic/2008/07/08/name-scrapers/comment-page-1/#comment-326 Terri Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:23:23 +0000 http://www.hornlo.org/isotropic/?p=121#comment-326 I've also noticed some of my former "specific word for word" search criteria appearing in the "catch all garbage" inserted into some questionable websites to drive traffic to them. I've experimented with a number of search engines so I don't actually know which ones are "grabbing" and selling our very specific searchs. Some of them contain proper names, cities, schools, etc. I’ve also noticed some of my former “specific word for word” search criteria appearing in the “catch all garbage” inserted into some questionable websites to drive traffic to them. I’ve experimented with a number of search engines so I don’t actually know which ones are “grabbing” and selling our very specific searchs. Some of them contain proper names, cities, schools, etc.

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