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thegooglecache.com — How to Piggy-back on Google's Own IP Addresses, GoogleBot User-Agent, And Even Mimic GoogleBot's characteristics (no script, no cookie, no referrer, etc)

Who dugg this? Made popular Aug 14, 2007

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  • Rhelim, on 10/10/2007, -5/+399I will no longer have to just take the free tour.
  • Somnabot, on 10/10/2007, -4/+257goddamit the first rule of fightclub...
  • mirzar, on 10/10/2007, -3/+139tried it - it doesnt work for porno sites
  • JohnnyRad, on 10/10/2007, -3/+136the article minus the fluff:
    "1. Beat IP Delivery: Use Google Translate as a Proxy, translating from spanish->english even though the site is already in English. (http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en)
    2. Beat User-Agent Cloaking: Use the FirefoxUser-Agent Switcher to spoof as GoogleBot (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/59/)
    3. Beat Javascript Detection: Use the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar to turn off javascript. (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/60/)
    4. Beat Cookie Detection: Use the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar to turn off cookies. (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/60/)
    5. Beat Referer Detection: Use the Firefox RefControl Extension to prevent referer from being sent. (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/953/)

    Using these in conjunction can be extremely effective, even at pay-for-information sites.
    Doing this may be against the terms of service of the site you are visiting."
  • Plasmatica, on 10/10/2007, -0/+87never give away your source of free porn?
  • PixelVision, on 10/10/2007, -5/+75FAIL
  • braaap, on 10/10/2007, -6/+72nothing wrong with surfing porn sites
  • rzermatt, on 10/10/2007, -9/+73woops.. digg me down. sorry about that double-post.
  • ckhw2, on 10/10/2007, -6/+62sick bastard in denial
  • SourSlurpee, on 10/10/2007, -1/+50Both.
  • zTeFaN, on 10/10/2007, -4/+48Huh, I don't get it... Just exaclty HOW do I use this to get free pron?
  • sonofa, on 10/10/2007, -5/+49nothing wrong with being in denial
  • sonick, on 10/10/2007, -4/+46TheGoogleCache is down! I wonder if the Google cache caught the mirror?
  • accelleron, on 10/10/2007, -0/+41Ok, so what DOES this get you into?
  • rjam710, on 10/10/2007, -0/+37So what you're saying is...this article has almost no value whatsoever?
  • nirav72, on 10/10/2007, -2/+37So if digg users crash a server using googlebot as the user-agent.and the logs show that it was a bunch of googlebots that brought the server down...will google get blamed for it?
  • akira117, on 10/10/2007, -5/+33http://duggmirror.com
  • CyrusG, on 10/10/2007, -3/+30Welcome to the internets.
  • ilovenicotine, on 10/10/2007, -3/+25I wanna ride on the fame train, digg me down too
  • awhiteflame, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21Your internets license is hereby revoked indefinitely.
  • wafu, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17You Sir, just got PWN3D on teh Interwebs Alex Bellis Brown!
  • K3ITHK, on 10/10/2007, -9/+23never talk about fight club
  • variable, on 10/10/2007, -10/+24http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/5471/d9fjdf9jzr9.jpg
    Sorry, but I thought it was amusing at the time. :o)
  • rzermatt, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16how about experts exchange? after all, they take up soo much prime listing in google, but they block unregistered people except bots from seeing the pages...
  • Firehed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11deviloid does. If you're not going to pay for your porn, at least spread the wealth with bit-torrent.
  • yonis, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11That site pisses me off so much.
  • DropTheOxygen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10BTW on all forums you'll appear as Google[bot] So don't expect to get into restricted areas ;)
  • oneoverzero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9this is an update on that
  • insomniac8400, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9"Doing this may be against the terms of service of the site you are visiting"
    LOL, too bad serving up different info to google than to google's users is already in violation of googles terms.
  • angers, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9experts-exchange
  • BitBurner, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Alex where have you been for the last 10 years?
  • drouk1556, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8In fact, it's a legitimate reason to digg the story. Digg it now if you're interested in the content and save it for later.
  • thebrokenlight, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Just disable all styles and you can see their "expert" answers.
  • RandomSchl, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7You can download ign insider videos with it. I downloaded a bunch of HD vids of Crysis.
  • humpy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7EXPERT SEXCHANGE? OH DUDE I'M TOTALLY IN.
  • computergod, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Or for scientific journals, or sites that show you where to buy illegal stuff.

    /drug nerd
  • dep01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Yay. another crashed server...
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Dugg down for the sarcasm tag.
  • koick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+65. You can also use Firefox Web Developer Toolbar to disable referrers.
  • Jleagle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Yes
  • stevanic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6The article doesn't say how to configure the user agent switcher. I put these values in but it doesn't seem to work
    Description : Googlebot/2.1
    User agent : Googlebot/2.1 (http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
    App Name :
    App Version :
    Platform :
    Vendor :
    Vendor Sub :
  • nthitz, on 10/10/2007, -5/+10The site going down is not a legitimate reason to bury a story.
  • Hayaemsay, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Then why even waste your time typing that?
  • akira117, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9yea ditto
  • timestar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Disable JavaScript for ign.com - you can download Insider videos then.
  • nirav72, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Doesn't work on rapidshare. Sorry..first thing I tried when I came across this yesterday. However, I didn't try it through google translator. Maybe the ip is different everytime when using google translator?
  • ch33sehead, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You can even make a bookmark for http://google.com/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=ja|en&u= and then enter in the site at the end.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Jerry Falwell? I thought you were dead!
  • rebopper, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4No good.
  • HigherLogic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4For those using Opera:

    2. Beat UA Cloaking: Not sure on this one, would have to look around. Anyone know?
    3. Beat JavaScript Detection: Hit F12 and select Enable JavaScript. No extension or download required.
    4. Beat Cookie Detection: Hit F12 and select Enable Cookies. No extension or download required.
    5. Beat Referer Detection: Hit F12 and select Enable Referrer Logging. No extension or download required.
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