Re:What if performance advertising is just an analytics scam?
by fiddlerwoaroof on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:45AM
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I wonder if Google indexes with browser user agents sometimes: unless the site used source IP tricks, it’d let Google detect this sort of thing.
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Re:What if performance advertising is just an analytics scam?
by IX-103 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @10:12AM
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Supposedly the Chrome safe browsing service crawls the web looking for malware. Since that's focused on finding malware they likely make it look like a normal user in terms of user agent and IP address, so it can probably detect these pages.
I believe the signals from the safe browsing service are used to affect search result ranking, but I have no idea if they look for different content being served to the Google crawler.