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[ILUG] Google weirdness -- gamed or hacked?

[ILUG] Google weirdness -- gamed or hacked?

Francis Daly francisdaly at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 18:50:04 IST 2008


2008/9/22 Francis Daly <francisdaly at gmail.com>:
> 2008/9/22 Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin at ul.ie>:
>> I have had a result from google that returned a bunch of weird
>> links. They all lead to what appear to be fake search engines, and do
>> not correspond to the URL displayed.

> I suspect it's UL.

> Suggest you invite the administrators of 193.1.101.61
> (www.student.ul.ie, among other things) to examine closely their web
> server.

Smaller reproduction recipe:

curl -i -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla' -H 'Referer:
http://www.google.com/search?q=A' 'http://www.student.ul.ie/fake'

Shorten the User-Agent to get 404, not 302. The value associated with
the q parameter is also needed.

I suspect that there's some code running on the server that the
administrator may not want to have running there. Odd thing hooked in
as a 404-handler, perhaps? On www.student.ul.ie, but not on www.ul.ie.

f



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