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Re: Googlebot is Chrome

#11

Post by techarity »

daxelrod wrote: post #9
blauwbilgorgel wrote: post #2

Mirror Google Cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/... I started believing that Googlebot would render entire pages, when Google Pagespeed was introduced. When they calculate page loading times, they can also produce a waterfall view of the rendering progress. Before I suspected some rendering/css/DOM parsing was used to detect hidden text and links, but not on such a massive scale. Like…

Be careful clicking that Google Cache link. The page appears to make a bunch of requests to shady sites.

Haha those calls are AJAX calls for the social sharing widgets in IPullRank. It's Twitter, Digg, ShareThis, etc.

Thank you for looking out for the fine folks at HN though!

Re: Googlebot is Chrome

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Post by daxelrod »

techarity wrote: post #11
daxelrod wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be careful clicking that Google Cache link. The page appears to make a bunch of requests to shady sites.

Haha those calls are AJAX calls for the social sharing widgets in IPullRank. It's Twitter, Digg, ShareThis, etc. Thank you for looking out for the fine folks at HN though!

I was actually talking about requests to the website roots of various porn and p2p domains.

EDIT: Please contact me at the address in my profile if you'd like me to send you a list of URLs that my browser accessed when I loaded that cached page.

Re: Googlebot is Chrome

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Post by blauwbilgorgel »

daxelrod wrote: post #13
techarity wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha those calls are AJAX calls for the social sharing widgets in IPullRank. It's Twitter, Digg, ShareThis, etc. Thank you for looking out for the fine folks at HN though!

I was actually talking about requests to the website roots of various porn and p2p domains. EDIT: Please contact me at the address in my profile if you'd like me to send you a list of URLs that my browser accessed when I loaded that cached page.

I can't edit that link anymore. Would suck if the Wordpress install was hacked. I'll try to contact the author. Thank you for the heads up.

Re: Googlebot is Chrome

#16

Post by techarity »

daxelrod wrote: post #13
techarity wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha those calls are AJAX calls for the social sharing widgets in IPullRank. It's Twitter, Digg, ShareThis, etc. Thank you for looking out for the fine folks at HN though!

I was actually talking about requests to the website roots of various porn and p2p domains. EDIT: Please contact me at the address in my profile if you'd like me to send you a list of URLs that my browser accessed when I loaded that cached page.

A quick run through the site with Firebug's XHR and Dependency Logger didn't show any Porn or P2P links or strange script calls.

I'll see if the site owner wants to reach out to you view email; thanks so much for speaking up.

Re: Googlebot is Chrome

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Post by lambda »

daxelrod wrote: post #13
techarity wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha those calls are AJAX calls for the social sharing widgets in IPullRank. It's Twitter, Digg, ShareThis, etc. Thank you for looking out for the fine folks at HN though!

I was actually talking about requests to the website roots of various porn and p2p domains. EDIT: Please contact me at the address in my profile if you'd like me to send you a list of URLs that my browser accessed when I loaded that cached page.

Yeah, when I loaded the original article, I got a lot more loaded than you would expect (hundreds of domains, most of which don't appear to be relevant), leading me to believe that something shady is going on.
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