Millions of Pages Google Hijacked using ODP Feed 427
The Real Nick W writes "Threadwatch reports that millions of pages are being Google Hijacked using the 302 redirect exploit and the ODP's RDF dump. The problem has been around for a couple of years and is just recently starting to make major headlines. By using the Open Directory's data dump of around 4 million sites, and 302'ing each of those sites, the havoc being wreaked on the Google database could have catastrophic effects for both Google and the websites involved."
OMG!!! (Score:1, Funny)
OMG!!! Slashdot's been hijacked too!
I've had it with Google! (Score:5, Funny)
*duck*
Re:Ugh. This is so not true. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ugh. This is so not true. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ugh. This is so not true. (Score:1, Funny)
Gopher (Score:5, Funny)
Wait... (Score:5, Funny)
Damn Google!!! Do you mean this is not www.kuro5hin.org ??
Re:Gopher (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Do what I'm going to do... (Score:3, Funny)
The super-slashdotting (Score:5, Funny)
Bleh... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Google Cookie last until 2038! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Robot.txt (Score:5, Funny)
couldn't you have made that a link so I can just click on it?
Talk about redirect. (Score:1, Funny)
Oh wait. I got bored and did a search for porn...
I guess that's different.
Re:Ugh. This is so not true. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Doesn't effect Yahoo (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Robot.txt (Score:2, Funny)
Or to put it another way... (Score:1, Funny)
I set up a goat.cx mirror. The goat.cx mirror contains a 302 redirect to slashdot.org, making Google think that my content has been temporarily moved to slashdot.org. Therefore Google thinks that what's at slashdot.org is just a temporary version of what's normally at my website. Therefore people who would have been sent to Slashdot get sent to my site instead, i.e. people trying to find Slashdot via Google get goatse'd.
Correct?