American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-trap" is clicked

Re:American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-t... by vijayp on Friday April 04, 2014 @11:27PM (#7535851)

Heh, this reminds of a story many years ago at Google, where we got angry messages from some guy complaining that Google kept deleting all the photos from his online album.

We eventually figured out he his online album had an unprotected "delete this photo" endpoint via a GET, and no robots restriction! We eventually had to fix the crawler to detect things like this...

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Re:American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-t... by userbinator on Saturday April 05, 2014 @12:14AM (#7535940)

I bet Google gets tons of these: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Spider_of_Doom.aspx

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Re:American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-t... by nraynaud on Saturday April 05, 2014 @02:46AM (#7536209)

I love this idea that you have to be exceptionally smart not to do the best job, but to do a normal job while surrounded by mediocrity.

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