I guess that he might really be building a news mashup site - there are a lot
of other news sites that the same sort of
thing happens with.
* Archive Site: www.cnn.com http://www.cnn.com.news-channel.org/
* Archive Site: www.foxnews.com http://www.foxnews.com.news-channel.org/
* Archive Site: www.bbc.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk.news-channel.org/
* Archive Site: www.pbs.org http://www.pbs.org.news-channel.org/
* Archive Site: www.eurekalert.org
http://www.eurekalert.org.news-channel.org/
* Archive Site: www.nytimes.com http://www.nytimes.com.news-channel.org/
* Archive Site: www.reuters.com http://www.reuters.com.news-channel.org/
* Archive Site: www.tmz.com http://www.tmz.com.news-channel.org/
I doubt that the content owners have sanctioned it
Paul
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:57:42 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>I'd vote "a little more nefarious" myself.
>
>Visiting the root news-channel.org renders an empty page (no errors).
>
>Visiting the same with the googlebot user-agent renders irrelevant filler text
>+ link bait (including one to www.news.bbc.co.uk.news-channel).
>
>
>An entire site that only answers to googlebot is rarely a good sign.
>
>Shaun
>
>On 02 Jul, 2010,at 05:27 PM, Anthony McKale <anthony.mck...@bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>
>I saw that too recently... wierd
>
>
>On 02/07/2010 16:23, "Christopher Woods" <chris...@infinitus.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Just searched for "Beryl Bainbridge BBC Four Documentary" in Google, and
>> amongst results this popped up:
>>
>> BBC - BBC Four Programmes - Beryl's Last Year
>> 24 Mar 2010 ... Novelist Dame Beryl Bainbridge makes a record of her life,
>> convinced she is about ... BBC Four: Audio Interviews - Beryl Bainbridge
>> (1934 - ...
>> www.bbc.co.uk.news-channel.org/programmes/b007mw91 - Cached
>>
>> Notice the dodgy URL? Going to it yields a 503 error. A whois on the domain
>> reveals it's registered to one Carl Andersson (of Advancen Pty Ltd) in
>> Australia.
>>
>> Anybody know if this is this a legit beta mashup which has found its way
>> into Google or is it something a little more nefarious?
>>
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