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Google Guy Matt Cutts hacked

Discussion in 'Websites' started by Pierce, Mar 31, 2007.

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Hacked or not?

Poll closed Apr 3, 2007.
  1. No way, silly rabbit. April Fool's

    70 vote(s)
    72.9%
  2. Yes, this is serious.

    26 vote(s)
    27.1%
  1. thetafferboy83

    thetafferboy83 Active Member

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    #301
    lol, I can't believe some people are taking this seriously. aside from the "coincidence" it happened on the 1st April - the back the dark seo site was down too and if that wasn't enough, all the "shout outs" to seo's lol... :)
     
    thetafferboy83, Apr 2, 2007 IP
  2. Zerosleep

    Zerosleep Established User

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    #302
    OLLLLLDDDDD NEWSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
    and also it is not hacked I can view his site
     
    Zerosleep, Apr 2, 2007 IP
  3. Bombaywala

    Bombaywala Peon

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    #303
    LOL - I liked how he managed to keep the index.html show up and rest all would display Hacked - amazing. I will have to try that sometime.
     
    Bombaywala, Apr 2, 2007 IP
  4. boyponga

    boyponga Banned

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    #304
    He is doing different jokes every year, nice try matt cutts, but the joke is very impossible to me.
     
    boyponga, Apr 2, 2007 IP
  5. boyponga

    boyponga Banned

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    #305
    the answer is in the blog itself
     
    boyponga, Apr 2, 2007 IP
  6. gio

    gio Well-Known Member

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    #306
    gio, Apr 2, 2007 IP
  7. boyponga

    boyponga Banned

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    #307
    I knew it before he started it. I would not believe if he is seriously hacked, Google may help him in case.
     
    boyponga, Apr 2, 2007 IP
  8. gary1974

    gary1974 Well-Known Member

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    #308
    after reading the post of matt, i can tell now that its a BIG joke. Whats the use matt?
     
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  9. Mong

    Mong ↓↘→ horsePower

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    #309
    Everybody knew it ;)
    It got even dugg :lol:
     
    Mong, Apr 2, 2007 IP
  10. gary1974

    gary1974 Well-Known Member

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    #310
    i thought its a true hack. anyways, i dont know whats with April 1 because we are not aware here in our country.
     
    gary1974, Apr 2, 2007 IP
  11. LeopardAt1

    LeopardAt1 Well-Known Member

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    #311

    LOL...April 1st is April "Fools" Day....some silly tradition many countries actually take in consideration.

    Read this if your curious:
    http://www.infoplease.com/spot/aprilfools1.html

    Cheers
     
    LeopardAt1, Apr 2, 2007 IP
  12. soju

    soju Peon

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    #312
    Hey guys, no voting after the fact. :) Us foolish ones don't need more votes to make us look more foolish. Good on the ones that made the right call in the beginning. Anyone know why it is that you can see who voted for what if you didn't vote yet, but not after (or perhaps only the poll creator can't view for who voted for what)?
     
    soju, Apr 2, 2007 IP
  13. Lordo

    Lordo Well-Known Member

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    #313
    So, google had two lies for fools' day in 2007. So far :)
     
    Lordo, Apr 2, 2007 IP
  14. Qryztufre

    Qryztufre Prominent Member

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    #314
    Google Paper, TiSP, and this blog...or was the gmail paper thing from a past year?
     
    Qryztufre, Apr 2, 2007 IP
  15. Pedro Monteiro

    Pedro Monteiro Well-Known Member

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    #315
    For god's sake it was so obvious! :D
     
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    infoworld Peon

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    #316
    Yeah, it was pretty obvious. But it fooled a lot of people - so I guess the joke succeeded.
     
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  17. boyponga

    boyponga Banned

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    #317
    Very obvious, mattcutts would not be hacked that easy. :)
     
    boyponga, Apr 2, 2007 IP
  18. boyponga

    boyponga Banned

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    #318
    In fact, why would Matt Cutts be hacked anyway?
     
    boyponga, Apr 2, 2007 IP
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    boyponga Banned

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    #319
    No, it is an April fools joke, it is pretty obvious. :)
     
    boyponga, Apr 2, 2007 IP
  20. Pierce

    Pierce Active Member

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    #320
    I am saddened by this being a joke. That Matt could take something as serious as being hacked as a JOKE.

    There are numberous threads on various sites and Matts blog about people being delisted for being hacked. He took these incidents "seriously" and tried to tell the webmasters about this, and here is making a JOKE out of peoples missery.

    For somebody who I thought was proffessional I was wrong. You don't see google chaning the front of your AdSense page to "You gotz ownzerd by J0 F00L" or something on Aprils fools do you? Its because your money is worth a lot to you, your lively hood.

    The information provided by matt is also invaluable in being on the good side of google, trying to gain additional ranking in google, and he threatens this with a joke.

    If being hacked is just a joke, why do you bother to delist people for it? Are you trying to play double standards, or are you just being a jerk off trying to wind people up and also indirectly imply that their lively hood is a joke?

    Ive delisted from your RSS feed and I wont ever read your words without "f**kwit" in my mind again.

    Pierce
     
    Pierce, Apr 2, 2007 IP
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