Dr. Maserati said:Well someone is watching - this is from last year, over the use of a t-shirt.
that's explains so much about their thinking. i wonder how many interns work for them, lots i imagine
great reply.
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Dr. Maserati said:Well someone is watching - this is from last year, over the use of a t-shirt.
BotanyBay said:Just like they can assist the police by keeping track of certain searches like "naked little boys"
Really? Proof please. You are suggesting that from hundreds of visitors a minute, (impossibly low number) they can pick searches like a single needle out of a haystack and alter those search results *with human intervention* in tenths of seconds? Really?BotanyBay said:, they most certainly have some kind of dashboard that lets them interfere or manipulate (if needed). The question is: "Who has the keys to the dashboard?"
I'm still trying to get you guys to see that most results are 'manipulated.'BotanyBay said:I'm just saying... We have manipulated results,
I'm arguing that Google's news search is designed to suppress it anyway. Think of it like google designing a system that returns contents that you would like find on a local news program. It's not hard to comprehend how a huge, litigation magnet of a story doesn't rank well.BotanyBay said:We also have a news item that BOOMED around the internet, and it didn't register in the Google News results.
DirtyWorks said:Really? Proof please. You are suggesting that from hundreds of visitors a minute, (impossibly low number) they can pick searches like a single needle out of a haystack and alter those search results *with human intervention* in tenths of seconds? Really?
sam208 said:Hacking is a topic that is very relevant in the LA investigation & I bet has already come to Novitsky's attention. In a battle over information, it is very helpful to be able to read your enemy's emails. Hacking email & use of keystroke loggers has been mentioned previously as tactics of LA:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/editions/latest-cycling-news-for-november-27-2006
DirtyWorks said:I think it's way more likely one of Lance's millions of fans works at Google and was surfing the net from the google-owned IP address.
My opinion may not fit reality. I proposed an experiment in another reply to test the phenomena. Give me some feedback on it.
DirtyWorks said:Betsy, if you are reading this, I'm happy to give you and Frankie all the technical help you may need to cut through some of the tech mumbo-jumbo. It would be a nice way to give back for all of the other B.S. you both have to put up with.
BotanyBay said:I know another Silicon Valley "Household name" internet presence. People there have "dashboard access" to be able to measure and analyze VERY specific data points, so I imagine a similar kind of dashboard can (and does) exist to be able to skew delivered search results to suit one's liking. An App that adjusts the algorythym to filter-out or re-rank the results.
They've got control rooms that look like Houston's "Mission Control"
And I'm not talking "Live intervention", I'm talking "Set it and forget it". Enter the website URL you want to "bury" and hit submit.
BotanyBay said:BTW, I'm not avoiding your question. I'm liking this idea. I just don't know how to react to it yet. My initial "gut feel" is that his blog became noticed when he wrote about Contador being left behind in the hotel by the team on the day of the big TT in 2009. He wrote some very stinging commentary that was not really common knowledge in the media. To compare that kind of blogging to "Hey, did you see the SI article last week?" is going to be apples and oranges.
I'd really like to see Sports Illustrated do an analysis of % of Google referrals on this story versus some others that were in the same league (as far as traffic). I'll bet that a very solid (and predictable) distribution curve exists in most of their stories. And I hypothesize that this situation breaks the curve.
DirtyWorks said:Nowhere in that article is keystroke logging mentioned.
this_is_edie said:guys, if (and that's big if) they actually monitored and manipulated search results to mess with a small time blog then they are definitely reading this forum. So you might not want to talk about this publicly.
goober said:Have any of you guys thought of a career at the National Enquirer?
sam208 said:"Stephanie told me that [Armstrong] told her he put a bug in Kristin's computer and every word she typed was sent directly to him."
Sanitiser said:So you believe this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVcKzzB-eF0 is 'blacklisting' this guy's blog?
Race Radio said:That is a great video. Dylan says all the doping was invented by the media to sell newspapers....comedy gold.
sam208 said:"Stephanie told me that [Armstrong] told her he put a bug in Kristin's computer and every word she typed was sent directly to him."
Race Radio said:That is a great video. Dylan says all the doping was invented by the media to sell newspapers....comedy gold.