The Downsides of Google Juice

Posted on September 9, 2005
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Now I understand a little about why I was getting those weird drive-by insults on the original New Orleans post – that post is the #2 hit on Google for “new orleans jokes.” I’m getting hundreds of hits a day from Google for that search string. Thus, the people tasteless enough to be looking for big fun in a tragedy that is still happening are the ones that were showing up there. I’m sure most were quietly disappointed but a select few had to be real dicks about it.

I’ve added a rule in my config file. Anyone that comes here with that query string in the referer will get redirected to the Red Cross site. I don’t want that traffic and will be happy to send it elsewhere – perhaps to somewhere where it can do some good. The whole thing makes me feel kind of ill.

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    8 Responses to “The Downsides of Google Juice”

    1. glemak on September 9th, 2005 1:12 pm

      that is a truly elegant approach dave, well done :)

    2. blackpeoplearepeople on September 9th, 2005 3:42 pm

      your right dave.

      i found a link on boing boing to this song. i think it tells part of whats happening…

      http://www.archive.org/download/George_Bush_Doesnt_Like_Black_People/GeorgeBushDoesntCareAboutBlackPeople.mp3

    3. Tilted Edge on September 9th, 2005 5:15 pm

      That’s interesting.

    4. Ken Nelson on September 9th, 2005 6:43 pm

      Dave:

      I join in expression of kudos.

      I’ll also point out that you’re #1 in Google searches for “time wasting ass clown”, and #2 for “Grumpy Dickhead”. :) Mike got #1 in the latter. The same results obtain on Yahoo! search; and thanks to the wonderful twingine.com, I could search both engines for a phrase simultaneously. These are the important things.

      –Ken–

    5. Brooklyn Bluesman on September 9th, 2005 9:37 pm

      What can I say, nothing but a “g” eek thing, baby!” Good execution Brother Dave.

    6. PJ Cabrera on September 15th, 2005 8:03 am

      Wow, that’s a great hack, Dave! You are one impressive dude. :-)

    7. dave on September 15th, 2005 9:14 am

      It wasn’t that big of a thing, technically. I just added these lines to the .htaccess file:

      RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} new.*orleans.*joke [NC,OR]
      RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} joke.*new.*orleans [NC]
      RewriteRule ^.* http://www.redcross.org/ [L,R]

      It’s not perfect, but it seems to get most of them.

    8. PJ Cabrera on September 15th, 2005 11:41 am

      I know, Dave. I was referring to thinking up the solution, not the technical part of it. I mean that I wouldn’t have thought of it if you hadn’t mentioned it, even though I knew in the dark recesses of my mind that Apache can do this.

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