A Recycled IP Address Caused Me to Pirate Books by Accident

Re:A Recycled IP Address Caused Me to Pirate Books by Accident by nebulous1 on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @11:47AM (#17021818)

They probably didn't even know that it was accessible via that domain. Their webserver responded to any request with the default site, and google decided to crawl ssl.nickjanetakis.com and found all the pdfs.

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Re:A Recycled IP Address Caused Me to Pirate Books by Accident by nickjj on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @12:33PM (#17022244)

That's what I thought too but then I noticed that someone bothered to put "- Nick Janetakis" in the titles of those PDF pages (check the screenshot in the article).

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Re:A Recycled IP Address Caused Me to Pirate Books by Accident by nebulous1 on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @01:00PM (#17022510)

Well spotted!

I don't think that's exactly what was going on though, although perhaps somebody else can chime in.

I don't think the "- Nick Janetakis" is actually in the title of the PDF, rather google has appended it to the actual title (the end of which has been replaced with an ellipsis).

I think google can get this from either the title of a html page or from a og:site_name entry of a html page (I'm not 100% on all this). It's possible that google took these from the "actual" ssl.nickjanetakis.com and still remembers the og:site_name and applies it to the pdf files?

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Re:A Recycled IP Address Caused Me to Pirate Books by Accident by flurdy on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @12:54PM (#17022443)

I think that may be something Google appends to its search results for some links?

I googled my own domain (site:flurdy.com) and it appends "- flurdy" to some of my static pages. But not for all, especially not for subdomain apps. So I am not 100% sure.

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