Bipin's experiments with life, society, programming, hacking, & other stuff
In an ironical/laughable/insightful event, http://zone-h.org was defaced today by Saudi Hackers. Irony because Zone-H maitains (probably the largest) archive of defaced site.
Below is the screenshot of the (defaced) homepage of zone-h.
The words “your security got bypassed .. see more security next time” are clear enough to announce that security is not an feature or an event, it’s a process.By the way, I liked the music 😛
Boom.
I mean Hi 🙂
I am not talking about something new. The term was coined by Adam Mathes on April 6, 2001 in uber.nu.
talking about the topic, should I explain what Google Bomb is, or should i explain the consequences?
Ummmm.
Okay. Goto Google, type “misrable failure”, and click on “I am feeling Lucky”.
What we get is the President of America’s page :D.
The reason being the way Google’s algo works.
While rating the web pages, Google employes several… ummmm ways/methods (I could not get the right word :P).
Anyways. One of these ways is to rate the pages based on the number of links it has, and also the keyword that has been used to link it.
One of the reasons my blog appears [last time I checked it was 11th] for the name “bipin”, though there no “Bipin” on the blog. Some of my friends have links to my blog using my real name.
… and the most scary thing, it doesn’t take a lot of links.
Wish to DEFAME someone?
You’ve the way now 😉
Update:
Google has started diffusing it’s bomb.
In a recent update Google inormed @ the official Google Webmaster’s blog informed that they have diifusing the bomb. [What the heck man? Were they waiting for my write-up 😉 ]
I was in one of my “Saddy-Saddy-For-No-Reason” moods.
And didn’t want to bother anyone so started playing with Google’s Webmaster Tools.
I used them for the first time so I had to go through the usual “add site”, “verify”… blah blah.
But after that I was surprised to see that my tech blog rates @ 1 for the search keyword COLUKABKI.
I verified it and was really amazed… status [:surprised:] & [:dead:]It even features above www.colukabki.com :-O
Another surprise, which I am still not able to figure out is that my personal blog features @ 10 for my real name……… however, I do not have my name ANYWHERE on the blog. [May be it’s somewhere in the comments. Whatever….]
I know it’s not a BIG achievement…. but it’s just the beginning… 😛
Update: Looks like the “my-personal-blog-getting-on-top-10” has been a victim of “Google Bomb Diffusion”. I never intended to raise my blogs rating by any such activity. It’s probably because my friends linked my blog using my real name….
…and now when the so called Google Bomb is diffused, my site, one of genuine sites to get weightage is suffering.
It’s time Google stops worrying about it’s public image and starts working on things that makes me address it as “Google GOD“
Update: This hack doesn’t work any more. I’ll post the latest pretty soon. Hopefully. 🙂
I loved this performance by Tina & Hussain. It left me breathless, and wet-ted my eyes :D.
I wanted it s badly. Did a l’ill research, found a hack, and here I am, sharing [& open sourcing it 😉 ].
You can find various sites and ‘n’ number of tools to grab your favorite video from Youtube.
There are definitely simpler ways, including a javascript. However, I liked this manual way of doing the job. It let’s me see where’s what… 🙂
1. Goto the page containing the video.
2. View page source. [Ctrl+U in firefox]
3. Search [Ctrl+F] for “player2.swf?“. It’d be something like “/player2.swf?video_id=jksdjs….“.
4. Copy the part after “?“, i.e., “video_id=jksdjs….“.
5. Append it after “www.youtube.com/get_video.php?“. It’d look something like “www.youtube.com/get_video.php?video_id=jksdjs….“.
6. Paste your string in the address bar of your browser and hit enter.
7. Please note that the video that we download is an flv file [and needs “.flv” to be manually added.]
8. If you don’t have an flv player, get it from HERE.
I hope it helps you get what you want I am not sure as to how long it’d work as the YouTube guys do not like people to download the videos and keep changing the settings. [ I am still wondering why!!!] If the above mentioned steps do not help, please leave comments.
Psst.: I am planning to write a script to do it automatically. However, I am not sure if I want to do it in Perl or Java. [Perhaps, I’ll code in perl and ask my students to do it in Java 🙂 ]