Chris Spann
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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And from what I understand, they were they were uh an alcohol delivery service and they never really recovered from it.
And then they were bought by Uber and they were closed down recently.
Now I'm not saying it's because of that, but you know what I mean?
In some really egregious instances it can just your company can be put under such financial strain as to what's happened that you lose your job or the company goes.
So
Yeah, Google Google bombing is a little bit less of a thing nowadays, obviously, but I remember uh in the UK, I don't know what CMS it is, but um there's a lot of local news sites in the UK.
I don't know if this is still the case now, but certainly ten years ago or so when this story takes place, this was the case.
The URLs would be site dot com category, and then you would have like a six or eight digit UID, which was the
Which was the actual story and that was the important part for for rendering the page.
And then there would be a few words after it, which would be the the headline with the stop words taken out.
But they were literally just there for SEO.
So people discovered that and there was a story in this paper that I think maybe some SEOs took umbrage with or something like that.
And within a few hours they'd managed to get that version of the story ranking, but with the URL, you know, had the UID of the article, but then with the keywords and if you uh uh uh allow me a very minor swear, something along the lines of we'll publish any old crap.
Because again, and that's that's a funny one, right?
But you know, if if you work in a small, very competitive uh industry where people are prepared to do anything, and it's even worse when a site takes something that's in the content of the URL bar and puts it in the page, because then people can just spin up slanderous pages on your website.
Again, I've worked on sites where and this is
going on a little bit now on on that, but um
on the subject of putting things in the URL bar.
If you ever have a site where you find that anything you put in the URL bar becomes a canonical tag, you need to start checking whether you can escape.
out of good basically what you can do on some most sites have closed this down now.
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