Maybe Bill Nye could invoice them.
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You landed upon a click fraud site.
These sites don’t exist for humans. They are part of a huge web of generated sites used as link farms. They scrape legitimate sites for content that has relevant data, use them to host sites filled with this not-quite-nonsense, and fool the Google search spiders into believing these are real sites that get real visitors. And they host ads - lots of ads. These ads are real, they’re paid for by actual businesses who want to sell products. And the ads generate revenue for the hosting sites, who get paid real money for eyeballs and clicks.
But the sites hosting the ads are fakes, as are the clicks.
The only visitors these sites actually get are zombies. These are usually home computers that have been hijacked by attackers (called bot-herders), and have been absorbed into huge botnets comprised of thousands of zombies. Zombies are rented out by bot-herders to run simple, yet nefarious programs. Among other dirty tasks, they are hired by the link farmers to frequently “click” on these fake sites, generating traffic that is counted by google-analytics, making it look like thousands of different people are all interested in their “catalog of beautiful objects”. In the end they are fraudulently collecting money from advertisers who have been duped into believing their messages are being seen by real people.
The reason for running the site through a thesaurus is to avoid detection. Google’s security teams know these link farms exist, so they search for them using text appearing on known legitimate sites. Sites like boing boing may also be searching the web looking for plagiarized copies of their site. Whenever anyone finds a link farm, they tell Google who stops indexing it, and stops paying the ad revenue. So the grifters behind these systems are constantly trying all kinds of transformations to avoid being discovered for as long as possible.
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My 7th-grade self just got real huffy and defensive at you.
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I’ve noticed those when I’ve searched for $OBSCURE_TOPIC and found word salads in my search results. Needless to say, I don’t click through.
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My 7th grade inner twerp was the one that made me say that.
Thirty years ago, maybe sooner, what you wrote would have been sci-fi.
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I think that “injuries inconsistent with life” (sometimes ‘incompatible with living’ is a term of art rather than a content munging defect.
Exact standards vary by jurisdiction; but it covers any of a variety of injuries so obviously lethal that a paramedic or other first responder can make the determination on the spot that attempts at supportive care are futile and need not be performed.
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OOh, Ohh, I know teacher. Decapitation.
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I’ve been told that if you can’t perform CPR without taking a few steps between the compression stage and the ventilation stage you probably don’t need to be performing CPR.
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“Begin your singing. Acquire your wages”
Smash Mouth in a nutshell.
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Congratulations, you’ve just summed up the entire Internet.
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I gave “All Star” the Google Translate Sings treatment and got this:
Someone told me
The earth wails for me
I’m not a sharp instrument
He looks stupid
With fingers and toes
“L” in front view.
Years pass
Then he didn’t stop
I found the rules and started running
It doesn’t matter
Don’t just be yourself
Your mind is strong, but your head is crazy
Too many
More to see
So what’s the problem with the roads?
You will never know where you will not go
If there is no combustion
Hello
He is the star of all things
Make your own game
Go to the game
Hello
It was a star
Get a presentation
Success
And all those words are glowing
Only shooting stars break the mold
This is a beautiful place
And he says it’s fine
You’re connected now
Expected quantity
But they do not have air
They started to fall
Types of holes on satellite imagery
We break the ice
We’re fat
The water boils
You can swim too
My world is on fire
Are you okay?
I love it and have no worries
Hello
He is the star of all things
Make your own game
Go to the game
Hello
It was a star
Get a presentation
Success
And all those words are glowing
Only shooting stars break the mold
Hello
He is the star of all things
Make your own game
Go to the game
Hello
It was a star
Get a presentation
Success
And all those words are glowing
Only the stars fall
He asked his men
Can you save fat changes?
I have to leave this place
I said yes
What a picture!
I can use it
Low fat
And we can all take advantage of these small changes
Years pass
Then he didn’t stop
I found the rules and started running.
It doesn’t matter
Don’t just be yourself
Your mind is strong, but your head is crazy
Too many
More to see
How about getting back on the road?
You will never know where you will not go
If there is no combustion
Hello
He is the star of all things
Make your own game
Go to the game
Hello
It was a star
Get a presentation
Success
And all those words are glowing
Only shooting stars break the mold
And all those words are glowing
Only shooting stars break the mold
Still better than the original
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Thanks for the explanation
Hey now…
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I ran across the neural net version of All Star on mastodon recently:
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