There’s a Lot Of It Going Around
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Jerry Kindall describes a recent rip-off experience of his own here.
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Posted to General Rants • 2002.11.08 (Fri) • 17:22
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Posted by victor 2002.11.08, 18:05
Apart from referrer logs, how do you discover if you’ve been ripped off?
Does Google index HTML comments? If so, one could insert some unique strings which the ripper wouldn’t bother to remove, and then periodically look for them in the search engine…
Posted by nicklas 2002.11.08, 18:57
a case for http://www.pirated-sites.com?
Posted by Adam Rice 2002.11.09, 00:46
I don’t think Google indexes comments, but you could set a chunk of text with the CSS tag “display: none” to hide it. I’m pretty sure Google wouldn’t figure that out.
Hmm, think I’ll do that right now, just for grins.
Posted by Adam Rice 2002.11.09, 00:54
I had a ripoff experience, but it wasn’t page design—it was product design for a sideline business. I can’t complain too much, since I post detailed instructions on the web—but I didn’t expect anyone to use them to make a commercial product. The same guy who did that also ripped off a disclaimer, verbatim, from the web page where I sell these products.
I only became aware of this when he e-mailed me asking me for some tips related to the very thing he was already ripping off (that’s what I call chutzpah). Just for grins, I tracked down his web page, and was surprised at what I saw. When I called him on it, he came up with some hand-waving excuse about the product design, and shrugged off lifting the text because “it was too good to pass up”—though he did change it.
Posted by mary 2002.11.14, 18:34
i’m 90% sure google doesn’t index html comments. i was curious about that myself (that’s how i found this site). i can’t seem to find confirmation or otherwise (though i haven’t exactly scoured the web yet…), so if anyone knows for sure, please, do tell.
However.
my site was indexed on the 12th (2 days ago) and i have this comment block that i haven’t changed in forever, and so i did a search for an exact string out of that comment block just now, and it didn’t come up. so that’s how i reached 90% sure.
Posted by mary 2002.11.14, 18:35
i’m 90% sure google doesn’t index html comments. i was curious about that myself (that’s how i found this site). i can’t seem to find confirmation or otherwise (though i haven’t exactly scoured the web yet…), so if anyone knows for sure, please, do tell.
However.
my site was indexed on the 12th (2 days ago) and i have this comment block that i haven’t changed in forever, and so i did a search for an exact string out of that comment block just now, and it didn’t come up. so that’s how i reached 90% sure.
Posted by mary 2002.11.14, 18:37
o_0
sorry. hate when that happens. i need to lay off the caffeinated goods.
Posted by Dave 2003.10.24, 17:36
Nice article
Posted by patricia 2004.05.02, 01:09
Excellent, let me know how it works. I’ll add methods for retrieving the rest of your collection too (not just the currently reading and favorite books) as well, so that might be a better option than creating xml feeds for each of these things.
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