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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: MrX on 20 February 2005, 07:14

Title: Does GoogleBot have a taste for porn?
Post by: MrX on 20 February 2005, 07:14
i stumbled onto exactly the right time and the right place, and i took a screen shot..
(http://www.beq2.beworld.info/google%20spider%20shot-%20microsuck.com.png)

the interesting thing is, that you can't click on it. not a registerd user then
Title: Re: Does GoogleBot have a taste for porn?
Post by: Doogee on 20 February 2005, 07:30
it detects the user agent. most forums do that; pretty simple, really.
Title: Re: Does GoogleBot have a taste for porn?
Post by: MrX on 20 February 2005, 07:34
what's the user agent string? i wanna hack it into my browser so i can be GoogleIZED!

Mr X
Title: Re: Does GoogleBot have a taste for porn?
Post by: Doogee on 20 February 2005, 07:35
I dont know, it may also detect other factors.
Title: Re: Does GoogleBot have a taste for porn?
Post by: Calum on 20 February 2005, 15:39
hereare a couple of mozilla extensions that can do this:
http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/useragentswitcher/
http://prefbar.mozdev.org/

or you can just type about:config in your mozilla address bar and modify the strings beginning with general.user.agent yourself.