Last week a Swastika appeared on Google trends as a top queried term (leading to an endless debate as to whether the symbol was offensive or not). Google removed the symbol and returned our email query saying that a link on a a popular Internet bulletin board was to blame:
The Hot Trends list is automatically generated by machines and algorithms that detect hot or breaking queries. In this case, it appears that the html code for this query was posted on a popular internet bulletin board, which led to quite a few people searching to find out more about this symbol. The Hot Trends list reflected that surge due to people searching with this query.
A site called 4Chan may have been the bulletin board Google referred to as the original cause of the Swastika issue, it turns out.
Today it happened again, but instead of a Swastika the statement “ǝlƃooƃ noʎ ʞɔnɟ” appeared as the top queried term on Google Trends before again being taken down by Google. A comment in Google Blogoscoped forums noted that a tool called Flip can be used to invert text quite easily.
That explains how the text was flipped, but not how it managed to get by Google’s spam filters. My guess is they’ve put an engineer or three on fixing the problem to avoid further embarrassments, but they appear to have a dedicated opponent. No word yet on whether 4Chan was involved in this most recent spamming attempt or not.
Thanks for the tip Dave.
Yeah, looks like the /b/tards posted another one of their videos taking credit for this.
I guess they got tired of Scientologists.
rick astley did it.
nicely done.
Had to do it.
looʇ dılɟ sıɥʇ ǝʌol ı
˙ʎɐʍ sıɥʇ sʇsod ǝɹıʇuǝ ƃuıʇıɹʍ ʇɹɐʇs ʎɐɯ ı
Gaming Google Trends isn’t actually that hard and it gets a hell of a lot of attention.
You only need a few thousand people to search for something.
http://www.blog...-google-trends/
Ebaums did it.
Ebaumsworld.com is behind this trying to blame it on 4chan like always. I wish the media would wake up and realize that Ebaumsworld users are the ones behind hack attacks like this and they ALWAYS blame 4chan.
Anonymous does not forgive. Anonymous does not forget.
I have to admit, that is pretty damn funny. I almost thought I would of seen a (FLIPSIDE) within the post here but to no avail.
I lol’d so hard when I saw this
Well it seems like it has already made its way across the Internet
Do not folow that link. That website just plays the same song over & over again, with pop-ups (no your blocker won’t help) of the lyrics… forever. You have to reboot to get away. Jerks.
p: ɥɔunɹɔɥɔǝʇ oʇ ƃuıɯoɔ doʇs llıʍ ǝʍ ‘ʇɐɥʇ op noʎ ɟı
‘lǝɐɥɔıɯ
ʍʇɟ uɐɥɔ4
I wonder whats going to happen next.
I don’t think Google can find a way around it, unless they filter out every IP that goes to 4chan through them and just ignore it’s data.
However I doubt that
d: suıʍ ɹǝɹǝʍsuɐ ʇsǝʇsɐɟ ǝɥʇ ˙ǝlppıɯ ǝɥʇ uı uoıʇsǝnb ɐ ʞsɐ puɐ ʇsod ƃıq ɐ ǝʞɐɯ ʎllɐǝɹ plnoɥs noʎ
Ebaums did it. It’s always Ebaums.
˙ʎɹɹǝʞ uɥoɾ ʇusɐʍ ʇı ǝɯnssɐ ı ¿sıɥʇ pıp s,oǝs noʎ ɟo ǝuo ɥɔıɥʍ ʞo
these people are really good, and damn funny
brian
http://www.them...rfulcompany.com
hilarious.
waiting for the next one
it was 4chan, i witnessed that thread of fail, was on for quite some time (an hour or so)
Well that’s an obvious lie. 4chan bans any one who raids or promotes destructive acts. You’re obviously from Ebaumsworld.com.
¡¡¡sɹǝƃƃıu suıʍ sɐʍlɐ uɐɥɔ4
ʇǝqıʇ ǝǝɹɟ
4chan also put ‘i herd u leik mudkipz’ and ’scientogy is a cult’ to the top yesterday when searching for either you got a error page
You mean Ebaums World
I flipped this text twice!
“I flipped this text twice!”
LOL. Nice one.
No one on site, except the racists, thought swastika is a evil symbol. Period.
Thats funny now I wanna go to dafont.com and download upside down font and write a letter.
My concern is that Google is selectively filtering and choosing what to remove and what is visible. If the swastika symbol is hot, so be it. If Brittany Spears is hot, so be it. If I’m out, well I’m flattered. You get my point.
Rule 34!!1
Pretty cool. You can flip your text upside down and convert it into even more crazy looking text at flipmytext.com
if google themselves cant filter out these spams i wonder how accurate comscore and hitwise measurements are about the search trafiic
Can someone explain why this is a ’subversion’ of Google trends? If the tool is designed to report on moment-to-moment blips in the popularity of search terms, then regardless of the intent of the folks generating these queries, Google’s results are accurate. Let’s not forget the temporary nature of these “trends”. It’s not like ‘gaming’ these results have any real impact to the rest of Google’s index, which the only thing truly worth gaming.
Rule 1 and 2, noobs.
This is the “script” (just basic HTML) they used to achieve the now infamous “ǝlƃooƃ noʎ ʞɔnɟ”-bomb:
It was fun, but in the end, it led to more attempts with other phrases, and thus, more failures.
Well, the HTML code I posted got embedded into the site. Hmm. lol
Didn’t work quite as I intended.
Need to flip text? Use the Netvibes widget, one year old already
http://eco.netv...01143/flip-text
The spam filters can’t catch this stuff because the flipped text is not really flipped text, but using special unicode characters that resemble the letters upside down.
˙unɟ ssǝlɯɹɐɥ llɐ ˙ʇɐǝɹƃ os sı ʇǝuɹǝʇuı ǝɥʇ ʎɥʍ ʎlʇɔɐxǝ sı sıɥʇ˙I think.
Techcrunch rules
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тє¢н¢яυи¢н яυℓєѕ
тecнcrυncн rυleѕ
τεсhсɾυṉсh ɾυlεṡ
73(h(run(h ru135
TeChCrUnCh rUlEs
tєςђςгยภςђ гยlєร
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Any decent spam filter can catch this (I’ve written one), you just need to do smarter feature extraction and modeling — think hard about why this is different from normal search traffic from multiple angles. I’m pretty sure Google will solve this class of spams in a few days.
Is that not something of the hindus the swastika or is that the reflection of that symbol, thanks for sharing?
sounds like 4chan isn’t following their own rules by triggering google trend blips intentionally. Personally I think they should just be removed from any google search in general. the rest of the internet would be better off.
Too bad 4chan has nothing to do with attacks like this. Like what the rest of the people here and myself have been saying, Ebaumsworld.com has been and continues to be responsible for hack attacks across the internet like this. They continue to get away with it because they pretend to be from 4chan and do one hell of a job making it seem like it’s 4chan. You can get rid of 4chan all you want, but nothing will happen because the source of the problem is Ebaumsworld.com and their hacker users. They are the problem and to not accept it is to give into their lies and falsehood.
so weird ya…
so sweet!!!!!!!!!!!
Wat
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To call it subversion is stupid, how many times in a short period did google need to caught out, google is becoming too big if it can see this.
This should be called Diseconomies of Scale google style.
very very nice