Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search

Re:Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search by bambax on Thursday January 06, 2011 @05:40AM (#2074831)

Yes, the end of my comment was a (weak) attempt at humor, since there has been quite some talk lately about Google building cars that will drive themselves:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html

Edit: actually, all I really wish for, is for allintext: to work all the time. Why would I be a robot if I'm logged in, on an account of a normally active Gmail box?

Also, why is it such a secret? Why not make it more visible? A checkbox on the home page...

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Re:Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search by Matt_Cutts on Thursday January 06, 2011 @10:51AM (#2075719)

Lots of bot queries do allintext: searches, while fewer humans do that query. Bots can hijack human accounts/cookies too. Email spam botnets often use the valid cookie of their owner's host computer.

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Re:Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search by bambax on Thursday January 06, 2011 @11:23AM (#2075875)

Fewer humans do that query because it is kept almost secret (why do bots like allintext?)

I wouldn't mind answering a captcha from time to time, but instead Google just bans the use of allintext for several dozen minutes (or more). Really frustrating.

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Re:Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search by chronomex on Thursday January 06, 2011 @08:24PM (#2078143)

And number-range searches. I can't count how many times I've wound up with a number-range search query that wouldn't work for me from any IP.

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Re:Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search by Tichy on Thursday January 06, 2011 @12:37PM (#2076253)

So allintext is essentially a honeypot for bots? Otherwise it seems weird to offer the option at all, if all it does is get you banned for being a robot.

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