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Upset boyfriends and girlfriends are nothing new. There are plenty of stories of girlfriends getting back at their ex-boyfriends for mistreatment and visa versa. But in the age where Google ranks supreme, you do not want to mess with a girl who knows how to manipulate Google.
One guy learned this the hard way.
Apparently, a disturbed ex-girlfriend took her ex-boyfriend's professional taken picture and polluted it all over Google Images for a search on his name. You can see the Google Image search spam yourself by clicking here or in the screen shot below:
There has to be dozens of the same image, all with little notes from the girl written all over them. I won't name the individual in text on this page (because I do not want the page to rank for his name) or the notes but it is a bit interesting to see upset ex-couples use Google Images as payback.
I suspect the images will be dropping out of Google shortly simply because it seems like the image sources have been removed from the servers they were hosted on.
As per the complaint thread started by the boy's mother at Google Webmaster Help, the mother was extremely upset about this. She said:
My minor son's ex-girlfriend took a copyrighted picture of him (we own copyright) and uploaded it more than 60 times to a website. On each image she wrote slanderous, defamatory and pornographic captions. The webmaster of the site states he removed the images 6 weeks ago, but Google Search still shows all the images. My son is so stressed out and embarrassed and we've done everything we can to get images off of Google including URL removal tool, a letter to Google Legal with all the URLs because of copyright infringement, and nothing has worked!
You see, she knew to have the source site remove the images but Google still has them in their index. The issue is that although the images appear to be gone, the URLs they are sourced via are actually returning a 200 status code, which to Google means they are still there. They need to return a page not found status code, and they do not.
Lesson? Before you upset your girlfriend or boyfriend, make sure they do not know how Google works. Oh, and never mess with an SEO.
Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.
Comments:
Robert kelly Moore
02/04/2011 02:15 pm
Yes, It's new generation ideas........ http://www.crystaltravel.co.uk/flights-to-newyork.aspx
online coupons
02/04/2011 02:36 pm
lol so we can finally say that technology change everything, even our thoughts.....quite interesting it is.
unitechy
02/04/2011 02:38 pm
ha ha brilliant.
Martin Missfeldt
02/04/2011 02:43 pm
lol, thanks for the story :-)
Jan Saarmann
02/04/2011 02:48 pm
Superb! Made me smile
Jan Saarmann
02/04/2011 02:49 pm
Superb!
Nuttakorn
02/04/2011 03:01 pm
LOL Don't let your girlfriend knows that you are SEO Expert, she may scare of you. hahaha
Tom Henrich
02/04/2011 03:31 pm
"I won't name the individual or the notes" yet you very clearly show a screenshot with both. Hmm.
Barry Schwartz
02/04/2011 03:33 pm
Yea, but I don't want this page to rank for his name. So its just a screen shot.
Snwbrdsk8r
02/04/2011 03:58 pm
I love it!
samantha
02/04/2011 04:33 pm
The lesson I learned was to date more mature people.
Jamie
02/04/2011 04:48 pm
Before you upset your girlfriend or boyfriend, make sure they do not know how Google works.. Thanks for the reminder.
rax
02/04/2011 05:48 pm
This girl needs to be hired for SEO pronto!
Chris Yee
02/04/2011 05:51 pm
this just made my friday haha!
Barry Schwartz
02/04/2011 05:58 pm
Yep, that was kind of the point of this story. An SEO recruit out there...
Ben Pfeiffer
02/04/2011 05:58 pm
That's awesome, someone needs to hire that girl. She got skillz.
Fedor
02/04/2011 06:01 pm
Wow, he must have done something really nasty to pissed her off or she's a freakin' psychopath with too much spare time. I bet she has voodoo dolls and sacrifices chickens and all that freaky shit. Just think of all the crazy stuff she would have done if it wasn't for the internet. Would suck taking thousands of posters down around town.
angle45media
02/04/2011 06:04 pm
Meth (compounded with a bunch of spare time) is a terrible drug
Anonymous
02/04/2011 06:05 pm
The fact that you own the copyright does not matter.
Barry Schwartz
02/04/2011 06:07 pm
What do you mean it doesn't matter?
Fedor
02/04/2011 06:09 pm
I think he means, if a serial killer was going to stab you... he wouldn't care whether you had an aversion to knives... he's till gonna stab ya. Copyright or not, you can't stop people from messing with your image.
anon
02/04/2011 06:10 pm
Congrats on not posting any names, but having the google search...search by his name.
Fedor
02/04/2011 06:13 pm
I'm not sure I would want someone that unstable working for me. Just think of what she'd do if you had to fire her. Skill or not, crazy is crazy.
deancollins
02/04/2011 06:30 pm
lol, anyone know who the girl was? i'd like to hire her to help out my new startup http://www.LiveFootballChat.com she sounds like a barrel of fun to boot.
Johnthebaptist
02/04/2011 06:36 pm
You sound like a pedofile
Ryan Miller
02/04/2011 06:41 pm
This is why I tell all my girlfriends that Alta Vista and Excite are the most popular search engines right before I dump them.
Anon
02/04/2011 06:48 pm
This girl is a hero!
buildingsonfire
02/04/2011 06:54 pm
If I had a girlfriend that did this to me after we broke up, I'd want to go back out with her.
Bromstein
02/04/2011 06:57 pm
Where do I buy the t-shirt?
deancollins
02/04/2011 07:05 pm
should i change my avatr> http://bit.ly/hVLX9H
thedude
02/04/2011 07:09 pm
If the genders were reversed, most likely this article would be about how the guy was recently charged/arraigned for some sort or cyber bullying/stalking crime.
Welp
02/04/2011 07:13 pm
You wont name his name? It says in the google image screen shot right there that he is XXX. Heh.
Barry Schwartz
02/04/2011 07:19 pm
I didn't post his name in text, I don't care if you know his name. I just don't want the page to rank in Google for this kids name.
Barry Schwartz
02/04/2011 07:20 pm
Like I said above, I didn't put his name in text on the page because I don't want it to rank for his name. Putting it in an image should not result in this page ranking for his name. I edited your comment so his name won't show up in the text on this page.
Cloud196337
02/04/2011 07:26 pm
She did not use the photo in such a way that would be an infringement upon the copyright law; she can't be sued for it. Therefore, it doesn't matter.
Fedor
02/04/2011 07:37 pm
She used his image in a marketing campaign for a job and she didn't have the rights to do so. Don't you see...
Harsha
02/04/2011 07:54 pm
When googlebot crawls through your site, it will also look at the URL which has his name on it.Rest assured your page has been ranked by google as a source for his name. ;) Nice of you to try though.
Barry Schwartz
02/04/2011 08:02 pm
Maybe. I assume it won't rank high.
Barry Schwartz
02/04/2011 08:39 pm
So just in case, I am passing the Google search through a redirect URL, so the text is not in the source code.
Call_me_jitters
02/04/2011 08:50 pm
You date some seriously stupid girls then
Jason Boehle
02/04/2011 09:22 pm
Smart girl but man that sucks.
Smart girl
02/04/2011 09:36 pm
Oh please. More like if it's a guy he would be hired already, or all they guys would think he his a hero. Furthermore, a movie would be made of his experience.
inm
02/04/2011 09:43 pm
It's hilarious to see a girl use actual SEO tactics to get back at her man. Very clever, but doesn't bode well for anybody she goes out with in the future. I thought http://www.dirtyphonebook.com/ was the limit to how far people would take getting revenge on people. Thank god that doesn't have pictures.
Erin
02/04/2011 10:57 pm
Yeah, by LIFETIME.. and would show the guy being a jerk and the woman being an innocent flower that was left with no other option.. puh-leeeease....
AT
02/04/2011 11:05 pm
Isn't this a form of bullying???
AT
02/04/2011 11:06 pm
I very much agree. What this person did is unacceptable. If these two worked together, she would be fired from her job instantly.
William Vicary
02/04/2011 11:52 pm
Lol you might not have mentioned his name, but plenty of other blogs have done - they sound like a wealthy family perhaps an upsell for Reputation Management is in order? :-P
Tom Collins
02/05/2011 01:36 am
Hmm.. Let’s see..seems like an awful lot of poor me articles coming out for the little boy by mommy all at once. Looks to me more like mommy is trying to bring attention to sonny boy instead of getting rid of these images she says he is so embarrassed of. Any intelligent person can read between the lines mommy. If I were a betting man, and I am, I would say 60 images..sonny boy is probably disliked by more people than a single girl. Sounds like a desperate attempt by a mother to bring attention to her son. Lady, leave your boy alone!
Mike
02/05/2011 11:24 am
"Never mess with an SEO" What a childish sentiment. Do you think that being an SEO or knowing Google Search (for example) merits being treated differently? (Hint: pulling the "I'm an SEO card" out isn't going to get stop someone from breaking up with you)
Nazhiker
02/05/2011 01:32 pm
if a guy did this to a girl he would probably be thrown in jail or sued - right? isn't that what happened to the guy who defamed some sort of seedy celebrity female with her photos recently? we really need some better guidelines for all this instead of just laughing it all off as in general it makes the web look rather stupid ie most sites just take any old thing automatically and never humanly review the content - so what is the real value of a site like that in the long run when over and over they prove vulnerable to spam and these type of posts? it may seem like nothing to some but in general it most likely is the reason why a real lot of people like social media as it seems to offer them some sort of trusted group where the bad guys can be reported and get thrown out faster then the wild wild world of the google paradigm - at least that may be the test of social medias real survival and ultimate dominant growth?
_will_s_
02/05/2011 02:05 pm
i dont get it..doesnt SEO mean search engine optimizer / optimization?
Dejoejohn
02/05/2011 02:29 pm
OMG! Thank god Girls near me don't have any clue "HOW GOOGLE WORKS". O_O
doodhian
02/05/2011 02:59 pm
nice technique
dp2
02/05/2011 03:02 pm
It's a shame you helped her slander him. Be careful ... karma is a bitch.
KemiPemi
02/05/2011 03:03 pm
hahahaha, you go girl! I think she is awesome. net-privacy.at.tc
Do the right thing
02/05/2011 03:03 pm
Too late Barry. The damage is done. By including his name in the image (you could have blurred the text) you encouraged and allowed a comment on your post to include his name 6 times. That helped get your site a #1 ranking for a search of the boy's name as of last night. Thanks to your post, your story is being picked up and echoed on several other sites. This poor kid's embarrassment is growing because you didn't care enough to protect his identity. You need to put yourself in his shoes (and you should do that very soon!!). Imagine if embarrassing images of you or those you loved wound up plastered on Google Image search. You'd feel like people (such as, in this case, you) who helped exacerbate this problem would be held accountable. You would be very wise to delete this entire thread.
Becky Kikukawa
02/05/2011 03:06 pm
and definitely date mentally healthy individuals, and if you don't, make sure your mom can take care of the resulting mess for you.
Alex Chesser
02/05/2011 03:34 pm
Kid who wants to be an actor gets worldwide exposure via Meme-ification? Anyone remember the "Hot girl quits photo-essay" by the Chive? I call BS.
Grant Martin
02/05/2011 03:56 pm
You're right, _will_s_, and I'm glad I didn't have to be the one to point it out. While we're at it, what's with "professional taken picture?"
Jay
02/05/2011 03:57 pm
The article states the webmaster removed the images six weeks ago; however, I just took a look at the site hosting the images and they were all definitely still there.
foo
02/05/2011 04:11 pm
Yikes, what's going on with this page? Some JavaScript is causing my browser to freak out every time I scroll, maybe some slow AJAX requests?
Ed
02/05/2011 04:12 pm
She looks like the whack job for doing this, making him look smart to run. #FatalAttraction
basdirks
02/05/2011 04:41 pm
sad bitch, sort your life out IN REAL LIFE
LOL
02/05/2011 04:51 pm
Long time since I have read a comment as dumb as this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
Anand
02/05/2011 04:54 pm
Sorry but looks more like a viral campaign from MemeGenerator..
Kevintempless
02/05/2011 05:16 pm
To the bitch: Good luck finding another boyfriend that will put up with your medicated mood swings, bitch. To the dude: Just be happy you're free from the psycho bitch.
Mszanna9
02/05/2011 05:25 pm
to the bitch dude: Find a bimbo who is not tech savvy
Mzsanna9
02/05/2011 05:26 pm
to the dude: stop hiding behind mommy
Tim Acheson
02/05/2011 05:46 pm
Yes, it's too easy to fool Google's web search with Spam and junk. Even kids are doing it. This is why I started using Bing. Set Bing as your homepage for one week -- you will understand: http://www.bing.com
explorer
02/05/2011 05:59 pm
it was a sting operation / experiment by Microsoft on google search.
Whoisbid
02/05/2011 06:09 pm
Wow! A lot of companies need a girl like that ! I wonder if her talent can be harnessed into bringing attention to new products!
Vipul Taneja
02/05/2011 06:14 pm
Hahaha.. Now guys need to be careful before ditching girlfriends.. :P
William K Wallace
02/05/2011 06:21 pm
The part of all of this I don't get, why the hell is it the guy's mom who is dealing with it. The girl has got too much balls for the loser...
Pheonyx
02/05/2011 06:42 pm
The first three words of the mother's comment explains why: "My minor son"; he is underage and therefore cannot initiate legal proceedings in case Google didn't pull them from their image database.
Tyler Deardon
02/05/2011 06:54 pm
LOL that's so hilarious. Too bad she couldn't come up with anything clever.
Vivek Parmar
02/05/2011 06:54 pm
That's pretty strange, glad that i don't have any girlfriend
Alyn Alyx West
02/05/2011 07:08 pm
There could be a digital fingerprints reverse-trace backlash depending on what the true story is, and an ultimate inverse lesson to defamation and slander in the form of backlash depending on the true story...and it might just be a matter of using the same 'digital universe' platform to make the case for truth.
Poobah
02/05/2011 08:08 pm
you tried,however, this page shows up in the search for his name. has anyone tried using memegenerator for seo?
Isaac Goldstein
02/05/2011 08:39 pm
You forgot to censor his name on the google images search you pulled to get that screencap... Ugh also this totally reaks of memegenerator. Do you guys have girlfriends? Are they really THAT clever?
Kelpie
02/05/2011 08:58 pm
He's a minor. He can't do very much about it.
Matty
02/05/2011 09:37 pm
These days bad publicity is good publicity and this will only draw attention to this guy. Already the media is giving him more free press than any good Hollywood Public Relations team ever could, if he's smart he'll use that to his advantage -not to mention, he'll probably get more (and better) tail than he ever imagined. The dumb ex only makes herself look like a stereotypical psycho Fatal Attraction b*tch with no life. If she were really smart she would have left it alone and moved on.
Bingo
02/05/2011 10:30 pm
No, if she was really smart she would have signed her work...
Barry Schwartz
02/05/2011 11:26 pm
To be fair, I wasn't the person who posted this in a public forum. All I did was report public information. I will set the search engines to deindex the post, it might take some time. I will also remove the text references to his name.
Chrisch Log
02/05/2011 11:33 pm
Nice. Hopefully this will not appear to my colleges ex. She would learn how to do that :-)
Pj
02/06/2011 12:22 am
Yes, sometimes it's difficult to return the code Google wants to remove a URL because often you have pages tangled up with cryptic htaccess and PHP parameters that need to be rewritten. And that's just to get out of Google, there's Yahoo and Bing too. It takes time but there are ways to get things removed ;-)
Roland47
02/06/2011 04:30 am
Minor son...physically or emotionally?
Amit Bhawani
02/06/2011 07:08 am
The Images would soon be de-indexed by Google but new ones would pop-up from the stories like these which would create more problems.
Alex
02/06/2011 08:24 am
Mm.. Actually, the pictures are all there + a bunch of new ones. For instance with texts like "Have-No-Penis-Cry-To-Mommy-About-Copyright"..
Whiz8kid
02/06/2011 08:27 am
This was a nasty thing to do but I believe in karma. So what this woman did will some day happen to her. Not to punish her, but to show her what it feels like.
kawakawa
02/06/2011 09:57 am
Maybe he did it to somebody else and she just copied? I'm just wondering what he did to cause this, er, response. Oh wait. Chicken nuggets for every meal? Wow, so he's a health freak ...
billsom
02/06/2011 01:44 pm
Is this responsible journalism? Is it even journalism? Do you have any idea what kind of tragic conclusion could result from your desire to boost your blog numbers? I've read your articles in the past Mr. Schwartz and for the most part I've found them educational and informative, but this one makes zero sense to me. Knowing that the situation involves a teenager who is admittedly emotionally stressed, you couldn't post your article and achieve your goal with the young man's name omitted? Many of the readers on here have posted the same opinion as me, so please stop hiding behind "the mother posted his name" excuse. You didn't need to include it, wrong is wrong. Hopefully this nightmare will eventually disappear for the young man and his family. You should help the process and take this down. You know better, shame on you.
Barry Schwartz
02/06/2011 01:48 pm
This is an SEO blog. This is the first time I have seen an example of an upset girlfriend spam Google Images this way. It is a good example for SEOs. It is not about the pageviews. If you look, you will noticed I noindexed this page and it should be removed soon from the index. In fact it is removed already http://www.google.com/search?q=http://www.seroundtable.com/boyfriend-spammed-12909.html The point is to show how unique this was in terms of spamming Google. This is not a gossip blog, it is an SEO blog. I have very strict rules in what I do or do not post. As I said in my rules, anything posted in a PUBLIC forum is fair game. If it is public, it is public. Here are my guidelines http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/002457.html I do not see why you blame me for bringing this to the public. It was out there already in a public forum, not password protected, or anything.
JB
02/06/2011 03:06 pm
I will not follow your blog if you feel for whatever reason you cannot and will not protect the already infringed upon rights of those (including minors and adults) in the stories you post to further your work. You can protect them not through technology and "indexes", but rather by not posting the article at all. Or maybe you write your own article and site a few examples of which you remain general and vague to protect people you don't know who are involved in situations with nuances you will never know. Also, "Public Record" is not Google, it's a legal agreement that an adult enters into where they forego their rights to certain privacies. This is gossip and you are spreading it. I think you know this but instead feel that being defensive is a better practice that owning up to it. The fact is that the situation these people are in does not reflect your work and is beneath you.
Barry Schwartz
02/06/2011 03:25 pm
Did you read my response above? To answer your specific points: (1) The post is not in Google anymore. (2) I removed the boys name but showed the example given by the mother in the PUBLIC Google help forum. (3) I cannot show vague or general cases here, this is the first time I have seen anything like this and since a real example was given in a public forum, I shared it. (4) I care less about the gossip, which is why I never posted the boy's name in text here. I also removed the post from Google. I have no interest in ranking for his name. I want to share this example with SEOs and heck, I even wanted Google to see it to drop the results from Google. If you have been reading me for a long time, you will know that I had no ill will. It was a few people who tried to post his name in the comments that caused this post to rank. They wanted to hurt the boy. I wanted to share a unique and interesting example of Google Image Search spam. That is all. I honestly did not think it would get this much attention. I am shocked. Knowing that it did get so much attention, I am not sure what I would have done differently. But hindsight... you know. Again, I had no intention to hurt anyone with this post. Just uncover the SEO value here. You cannot say SEOs did not learn from it.
billsom
02/06/2011 03:38 pm
You could have been just as effective at showing a "good example for SEOs" by publishing the same article with the young man's name/link absent. Whether on a public forum or not, you had the choice to write your article without the links that identified the kid. You made the wrong choice and now you have the choice to do the moral thing. Stop participating, take down "Payback: Upset Ex-Girlfriend Spams Boyfriend In Google Images" and I believe you'll not only retain the respect and loyalty of your followers, but gain scores of new ones!
Barry Schwartz
02/06/2011 04:11 pm
No, I didn't have other examples to show. That is what I am explaining. So I showed what was posted in a public forum. If it wasn't public, if she would have emailed me or called me, I would never have written about it. I do not think I made an immoral or wrong choice. I am sorry. I feel bad, so I made sure this post won't show in Google. I am in touch with members of the family. I am working with them to reduce the hurt as much as possible.
Exile714
02/06/2011 04:36 pm
What makes you think a minor cannot start a legal proceeding? Are you a lawyer? No, you're not, because you're wrong. Source: I'm a lawyer.
CaptainSc
02/06/2011 04:37 pm
I think you'll find the name that was in the original article is not his real name. If you look at Google Webmaster, the sites his mother asked to be deleted all used a different name which I won't mention here.
DS
02/06/2011 07:19 pm
Don't be so butt-hurt. This is hilarious, and you're just being a prick.
Roland47
02/06/2011 09:15 pm
I think the self-righteous pontificators here are just jealous because they didn't think of this. Don't take anything down unless you get a court order.
Roland47
02/06/2011 09:21 pm
Standing ovation.
Husband
02/06/2011 10:36 pm
Barry, ignore the crybabies. This is hilarious and needs to be reported. Love it.
phmadore
02/06/2011 10:47 pm
Censorship by the peanut gallery? Maybe in China, dickweed, but not here. Piss off.
GrrrlRomeo
02/06/2011 10:48 pm
She's gay bashing him (click through). Public humiliation is all hahaha until a boy throws himself off the George Washington bridge. Modern day stocks punishment.
Trobe
02/06/2011 10:48 pm
Idiot
GrrrlRomeo
02/06/2011 10:53 pm
I think the SEO value here is that SEO is not value neutral and this would be an example of unethical SEO. That's what SEOs SHOULD learn from it anyway.
KiraOfTheSky
02/06/2011 10:56 pm
she really didn't manipulate Google. She only use Memegenerator to make those pictures. Create a new picture with the character name (she put her boyfriend name) then add title and caption. simple as that. Even a 13 year old can do it lol.
Trobe
02/06/2011 10:56 pm
Wow, I see you hate men. Even so, it does not justify her actions.
Trobe
02/06/2011 10:58 pm
Wow, so you enjoy abuse. There are many masochist in the world, so you are not alone.
oggz
02/06/2011 10:59 pm
I'm actually a bit worried about the mother's comment. Her minor son? Does she also have a major son? Is the minor son not as good as the major son in her eyes or something?
Trobe
02/06/2011 11:01 pm
She distributed a modified version of a copyrighted image. It does indeed fall under copyright law
Bluck
02/06/2011 11:01 pm
Holy cow! This woman owns copyright!
Keshie
02/06/2011 11:05 pm
Tip to the author: It's 'vice versa' not 'visa versa'. A visa is a type of travel document. Anyway, I'd prefer to know what this guy is alleged to have done to her. For all we know he's the best guy on the planet and she's a teenage bipolar psychopath (although his mother's obviously a rightwing battleaxe so maybe the ex has a point). Still hilarious, though.
Trobe
02/06/2011 11:08 pm
I can not believe the number of people here that cheer the girl on. There is no information that the guy did anything, but break up with her (if that). I am sure if any of you were the butt of this sort of joke, you would not be so happy about it. The girl has serious issues and needs counseling. I am always in amazement of the number of people that receive pleasure at the sight of someone pain.
Standard Deviation
02/06/2011 11:16 pm
Oh, brother! A holier than thou attitude. It is an unsubstantiated allegation the guy is a minor. 2. I dont think this bloggers success at his craft is dependent on you censoring him. He has freedom of speech and you have the freedom to shut your holy pie hole and go elsewhere. 3. Are you an editor? You are trying to tell him how he can write his own blog? He doesnt tell you how to read! 4. This girl was quite piissed. Maybe he DID do something cruel to deserve it. Maybe not. I do know that if a guy did it she would get plenty of sympathy and he would be considered a schmeckel. 5. This is a public service he is providing as a cautionary tale for both sides.
Steb
02/06/2011 11:23 pm
this is surely a viral experiment. this guy is gonna be FAMOUS now, which appears to be what he wanted anyway.
Roland47
02/06/2011 11:34 pm
"I am always in amazement of the number of people that receive pleasure at the sight of someone pain." It's called Schadenfreude. Go look it up. I bet you have gotten a laugh at someone else's expense hundreds of times.
Zebobbybird
02/06/2011 11:40 pm
I don't know who that girl is, but she is awesome. Now, why can't i meet someone that maliciously awesome?
Ian Tester
02/06/2011 11:42 pm
Minor, as in underage i.e under 18.
Zebobbybird
02/06/2011 11:44 pm
meant to say "maliciously amazing" now i sound stupid.
sorin7486
02/06/2011 11:45 pm
you'll have to fight all the geeks of the internets for her mate :D
aka frantik
02/06/2011 11:50 pm
The image is still up on Meme generator.. http://goo.gl/akOmC
Ian Tester
02/06/2011 11:51 pm
About the status code - a lot of websites will produce error pages with a status code of 200, instead of the appropriate status. Pro tip to web coders - not everything making requests to your web site is a human capable of reading and comprehension; they could be all sorts of software e.g spiders, feed readers/aggregators, etc. The status code allows software to understand in broad terms what happened with the request and how to treat it.
Kamrom Dechu
02/06/2011 11:55 pm
Programmers are lazy, so this should be easy to solve. Just check the coordinates on the tertiary..Oops, sorry, started channeling strange dead sci-fi shows.
Isaac356
02/07/2011 12:02 am
+1 Defying Gravity reference
Lightnings
02/07/2011 12:03 am
You should have blurred his face, this is wrong
Nospam
02/07/2011 12:19 am
If a guy had done this to a girl... He'd be on his way to jail right now. But since a girl did it.. haha.. look. funny! His ideal solution now is to post the entire story somewhere major. As in hey all you other guys out there.. heres a psycho bitch to avoid!
SEO Specialist Philippines
02/07/2011 12:44 am
Maybe he needs counter-SEO services? hehe
John Bokma
02/07/2011 12:52 am
A SEO expert who links to his blogspot website instead of his own high ranking web site? He he he he...
rolandixor
02/07/2011 12:52 am
Pull-ease...
rolandixor
02/07/2011 12:53 am
I agree. What has me mad is, if this was a guy doing it to a girl, he would be painted as the devil with 4 horns, called a stalker, and possibly arrested.
D Lowrey
02/07/2011 01:10 am
I tell young people that if you want a stress-free life...get a dog or a cat. They can't type...tell embarrassing stories about you and WILL love you unconditionally. If you do think you need to date...remember that cubic zirconium is your best friend.
D Lowrey
02/07/2011 01:12 am
As a friend used to tell me...women...you can't live with them and sheep can't cook.
Thecritic
02/07/2011 01:49 am
I think people have failed to bring up the most relevant issue here: Not a single one of the captions is even remotely funny.
Siddhartha
02/07/2011 02:28 am
Some of these are immature women or girls who wish they had thought of this as a way to violently express their anger after a breakup (regardless of who was at fault). And some of these on are desperate men who would do anything to have the attentions of a real girl.
Roland47
02/07/2011 02:58 am
[rolls eyes...] Yeah, right. Because women are a bunch of chauvinistic pigs who have been discriminating against men for centuries. Just ask any husband-beater. Or, one of the millions of women who have assaulted and raped a helpless, defenseless man. Or, beaten up an old man just to snatch his wallet with a few bucks in it because they needed drug money. Or, who didn't hire or promote a man because he was...well, a man. And a man's place is in the home, barefoot in the kitchen.
Husband
02/07/2011 03:41 am
Survival of the fittest. If he's suicidal best to get it out of the way now.
GrrrlRomeo
02/07/2011 03:59 am
Aw, I bet you say that to all the diseases. Heart disease? Cancer? Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans with PTSD completing suicide? The younger the better. Just survival of the fittest. You're gross.
Austin
02/07/2011 03:59 am
If the picture really was taken by a professional photographer, the irate family probably does not own the copyright any more than the jilted girlfriend does -- the photographer owns it, unless a special contract specifically transferred copyrights to the subject.
GrrrlRomeo
02/07/2011 04:05 am
Censorship is done by the state. The "peanut gallery" voicing their disapproval of something is free speech. Piss off.
Crimsonrosella
02/07/2011 04:38 am
LOL at all the whiners complaining that "if a man tried this he'd be in jail'. I notice not one of them is providing a shred of evidence for this claim.
Rob Myers
02/07/2011 05:03 am
Typically, work done while employed by -- or under contract to -- another party, is copyright the employing party. Unless their agreement states otherwise, copyright would be assigned to the person commissioning the work.
Terri Anne
02/07/2011 05:06 am
And he went running home to his Mommmy to defend him. I am sorry, that s weak.
Dave
02/07/2011 05:23 am
Had it been the other way around (he published pictures of her with defamatory remarks) would you be saying the same thing?
SEO Specialist Philippines
02/07/2011 05:42 am
Actually that's the only website I have for my SEO services...
a malicious bird
02/07/2011 05:52 am
Don't worry, you look like a total genius.
bs76
02/07/2011 06:37 am
Slander, defamation of character, AND copyright infringement. The family needs to get a lawyer and sue the ex-girlfriend into oblivion as a lesson to future ex's not to do such a thing. While they're at it they can send DMCA notices to all the sites and Google to get the images removed.
bs76
02/07/2011 06:38 am
It's also illegal.
Faith
02/07/2011 06:39 am
Or they can all just calm down and leave it alone.. it's some pictures and some words. How about moving on with life and letting the drama drown itself out?
bs76
02/07/2011 06:43 am
Ask yourself if that's the kind of "advice" you'd want to hear of someone did this to you? "Suck it up little girl, it's just some pictures and some words. Move on with life and let this drama go." Yeah, right.
Thomas Patterson
02/07/2011 07:15 am
Who cares!. He won't be the first guy to dump her or "fake" a relationship. By the time she's 30, she'll be talking about all the men who treated her wrong. He'll laugh at this one day.
Guest
02/07/2011 07:47 am
The mother is wrong, she doesn't own the copyright, the son does.
Wing Wong
02/07/2011 08:15 am
Finally! Someone finally points out the one IMPORTANT thing about this who deal.
ArtGuy
02/07/2011 08:20 am
actually the photographer does unless he signed a contract with the guy turning over all ownership of the photo.
Ashitalemahalarahria
02/07/2011 09:19 am
This girl had better have a billion-dollar ass on her, or else be a lesbian if she ever wants to date someone seriously. Given her computer skills- lesbian is much more probable.
Lostlondoner
02/07/2011 10:02 am
actually, if it's a posed photo, the subject part-owns the copyright by default
Az11sra
02/07/2011 10:18 am
The evidence is the consistent stream of new stories about cyber-bullying in which the victim is always female. "LOL!!!" You're an idiot.
SEO Manchester
02/07/2011 12:01 pm
The power of SEO never ceases to amaze
Ryan
02/07/2011 01:06 pm
Sue the Bitch..
Dave
02/07/2011 01:15 pm
Actually, the photographer's work is a work-for-hire, which means that the person who hired him has the claim to copyright. The photographer only has a claim to copyright if the person who hired him signed a contract giving the photographer those rights. This is in addition to the subject's claim to copyright on his own image.
Anon
02/07/2011 01:23 pm
No, more often than not it doesn't fall under 'work for hire so the person who paid for it gets the copyright'. It's a state by state thing, but if we're talking a professional photography studio or a fellow on craigslist, unless they sign a document *saying* it was work for hire it stays with the photog.
Anon
02/07/2011 01:26 pm
No, wrong. Unless they have an agreement stating the photographers copyright was transferred, it stays with the photographer. This is not 'hire a web programmer on craigslist' it's studio photography (even hire a photographer on craigslist doesn't fall under work for hire unless there's a contract stipulating it.)
Benny
02/07/2011 02:51 pm
Don't you think that if they're getting a professional photog to take the pics the point WAS to get copyright on the pics so they can distribute? These don't look like family pics, but porfolio pics. In which case, they intend to distribute, and would get the copyright. She probably DOES have copyright, and as far as her son having it too, I'm sure he's in agreement with whatever he says, and if he's a minor, does it matter?
anon
02/07/2011 02:54 pm
You should look up the word 'chauvinism'; I doubt it means what you seem to think it means.
Johnfc3s
02/07/2011 03:07 pm
Sue? are you serious? All of you need some thicker skin. This little pansy ran to his mom and his mom is just another dumb bitch trying to get money if they take this to court. Also im pretty sure she would have got this picture by some form of social networking which means once he shares the photo it is for the public's use.
G.
02/07/2011 03:37 pm
I believe both FacoBook and Twitter have absolutely horrendous and tyrannical control over the images you upload to them... as in they're not yours because you gave up your copyright to them. That's why some professional photographers refuse to use FaceBook and twitter.
A Photographer
02/07/2011 03:46 pm
As a photographer who works extensively with copyright law -- you do not understand copyright law. Unless the photographer EXPLICTLY releases rights (reproduction, ownership, resale, non-commercial, whatever else) the PHOTOGRAPHER is the ONLY person who has ANY rights over the photos. Just because a photographer takes your picture and gives it to you doesn't mean you have any rights to do anything other than possess THAT physical photograph. Any decent photographer will explain the subject's rights PRIOR to shooting. The majority of the time I release (through signed contract) the non-commercial reproduction rights to the subject. They can reuse the photos for their facebook, myspace, et al... but they can't go off and sell them to a magazine or have them featured in another publication.
Rhys
02/07/2011 03:53 pm
Hell hath no fury like an SEO scorned.
The Photographer
02/07/2011 03:55 pm
speculation. If he's a minor his mother signed away his rights when she signed the agreement with the photographer / studio that shot these.
Alpha_x13
02/07/2011 05:09 pm
The mom says he is a minor. The mom owns the copyright.
viz
02/07/2011 05:27 pm
Sort of.. copyright is federal if the copyright owner registers the copyright with the federal copyright bureau. The purpose of this federal institution is precisely to allow copyright owners to avoid needing to pursue copyright violation and related damages in all 50 states. If the work is registered with the federal gov, the copyright fight happens in federal court, once for all 50 states. That's the whole reason to register the copyright for your work with the federal government. Copyright is granted automatically to whomever creates the work, unless they sign the copyright away to someone else. However without federal registration, you have gigantic battle ahead of you to collect whatever is due to you by copyright violators. If no agreements are signed, the photographer absolutely owns copyright. However what he can do with the photos depends on whether or not he obtained a model release. If there's a person or someone's property in the photo, without a release, he can't sell it.
Jodys
02/07/2011 06:48 pm
well at least she has a sense of humor "my dad makes movies in our basement - what does yours do" thats pretty funny
Tortuga
02/07/2011 06:55 pm
The boy is a minor. I bet the girl is a minor too. The legal system won't do much to her. You know the name of the guy, but you do not know the name of the girl. Post her photos, post her name, no defamation, present facts, make her deed known. This would level the playing field, at the very least. At most, her school officials find out, and she would get expelled. Makes for a very nice payback.
Yadav
02/07/2011 07:48 pm
Don't know why so many guys are pissed at the girl, I bet you every last one of them has seen at least one video or pic of "ex-girlfriend revenge" porn and never said a word about the guy, what's wrong when the girl does something that's actually not as bad. I say good for her and I hope this teaches both guys and girls to stop being stupid about their relationships. If you can't handle being in one .. DON'T be in one there are too many girls and guys willing to fool around for a night for you to have to fake a relationship for sex.
.haNk
02/07/2011 09:25 pm
lmaooooooooo! oh man that's awesome!
TexasJ
02/07/2011 09:27 pm
THis is nothing new. Google is one of the worst IP infringers on the internet, but unless you have more lawyers than Google, they ignore you. They're as bad as China.
Az11sra
02/07/2011 09:37 pm
It's a hoax. There is no J--- W------ in the United States under the age of 18. Some idiot sociologist is trying prove something so she can waste more of our tax dollars studying BS.
Dentop82
02/07/2011 09:37 pm
??
OneSTARman
02/07/2011 09:38 pm
LIBELOUS SLANDER - SLANDER A false defamation (expressed in spoken words, signs, or gestures) which injures the character or reputation of the person defamed; distinguished from libel. The defaming a man in his reputation by speaking or writing words which affect his life, office, or trade, or which tend to his loss of preferment in marriage or service, or in his inheritance, or which occasion any other particular damage. In England, if slander be spoken of a peer, or other great man, it is called Scandalum Magnatum. Falsity and malice are ingredients of slander. Written or printed slanders are libels.
Rider
02/07/2011 09:38 pm
This is why you will never ever see a picture of me on the internet, nor join any social network....people can not be trusted....period.
Jacobyou
02/07/2011 09:44 pm
Get over it. SOme people act like this is the end of their world. Freakin' losers.
Takes12know1
02/07/2011 09:51 pm
You do not have to register copyright and have not had to do so since the 1970s. Update your info, viz.
visibleholstein
02/07/2011 09:59 pm
Thin skinned? Maybe. But the kid and his mom should sue. The girlfriend has publicly humiliated him, and it is indeed slander. False labeling and accusations that ruin a person's reputation are slander. If everyone just turns a blind eye to this kind of behavior, every smart-a** kid who gets spurned by a boyfriend, girlfriend, or just anybody, will feel free to use the internet to ruin people on a whim. In this case, it will probably amount to nothing. The pictures will probably fade from internet circulation. But what if they don't? What if that kid goes to a job or school interview, and the people there remember his picture and have an odd opinion of him because of it? This really is serious stuff. It can hurt him in a lot of ways, and the stupid girlfriend needs to learn that (and so does everybody else). I say sue her.
Markymarky
02/07/2011 10:05 pm
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Whatever dude.
Wee! Watch my traffic soar!
02/07/2011 10:06 pm
You had the name, Barry, you could have tried contacting the young man or his family to see if they'd rather not be the means of blowing up your web traffic. You could have even checked with them to see if you got the facts straight. How do you know it was his mother who wrote the posting? Do you think maybe that makes your version of these events "funny" as you say in your podcast? What if his father wrote the post? Every site that has picked this story up is using your version of these events as fact, yet you verified nothing, I'll bet.
Abcd343
02/07/2011 10:07 pm
How would you know if there is someone by that name under 21? Chances are pretty good that there's more than one.
Johnfc3s
02/07/2011 10:09 pm
BUCK THE FUCK UP! This is no different than someone spreading a rumor around school that you kissed some nasty fat bitch. I dont know what happened but parents have turned their kids into such pussies nowadays. They think it is ok to sue someone or throw someone in jail because someone called their kid a bad name. They think it is acceptable to sue the school district instead of disciplining the little brat. Its fucking pathetic and makes me sick. He could have easily blown this off or even retaliated but no, his over bearing sorry excuse of a mother is probably going to take this to court and scar the girls life over some trivial bullshit.
Barry Schwartz
02/07/2011 10:16 pm
The story is not about a specific name or kid. It was about the spam I saw in Google Image Search. Showing that example is interesting. I like how you quoted my video. I assume you saw my face when I said that. Go watch it and see how I said "funny." I said it with the implication that the girlfriend found it to be "funny" but I found it "childish" as I said in my video. Like I said, it is an example of Google Image search spam I have never seen before. The example was given, I cited it for SEOs to see. I didn't think the gossip blogs would pick it up. I care less about pageviews but say what you want. Again, I do not need to verify the "story" behind how the images got there. All I care about is that they got there and I showed where they came from. This is an SEO site, not a gossip site. I quoted the thread and shared the facts of spam in Google. I don't care if it was his mother or the girlfriend. It doesn't change the SEO facts.
Pickle123
02/07/2011 10:24 pm
What have we learned? Never hire a professional photog, as the copyright of pictures of you, that you pay for, are not yours. Unless your a lawyer with a iron clad copyright transfer agreement. I did not know that sears/walmart/jojo's photo has the copyright to your Family Christmas card photo. To the wuss in this story. Suck it up, post pics giving her credit for the libelous postings, warning other potential partners.
Guest
02/07/2011 10:41 pm
Wait. That's what you've learned from this mess? Not very smart, are you?
Wee! Watch my traffic soar!
02/07/2011 11:41 pm
The picture is still here on your page. You've provided a link so that anyone can run the search themselves and see the intentionally hurtful images for themselves. I'm going to quote the info entered in iTunes on your Friday podcast, you tell me what conclusion one is supposed to draw: "This week was an interesting week in the search space, we had Google telling on Bing for cheating and a girlfriend spamming her boyfriend on Google - too much fun." Care to tell us what your face looked like when that was typed up? Don't be a hypocrite, you thought it was a funny story, so you ran it and promoted it as funny, don't try to squirm out from underneath your words now. You're right when you say you didn't think the gossip sites would pick this up. I'm not sure I can find evidence here you were thinking at all. You should do as suggested above and delete this entire thread.
Barry Schwartz
02/07/2011 11:47 pm
The link and picture are related and relevant to the SEO evidence. Believe what you want. I obviously won't change your mind.
RadarRay
02/08/2011 12:21 am
Now I can't wait for Taylor Swift to start posting all her ex's and they thought it was bad when she just wrote a song about them. Funniest thing I have read all day.
resetplz
02/08/2011 12:41 am
That's OK. Just call her a c**t; chicks really love that and in this case it may actually be deserved.
KinkArcana
02/08/2011 12:52 am
You realize that him using the internet, posting pictures, or joining social networks had absolutely ***nothing*** to do with this story, right? He could have been an Amish boy who'd never even held an iPod and someone feeling vindicative could have done the EXACT same thing.
Michael F. Cox
02/08/2011 12:55 am
And, if his mother does press charges, I'll bet ex-girlfriend will learn to NOT do this again. Ex-girlfriend MUST take responsibility for the repercussions of her actions, intentional or not. Her prosecution will also serve as an example for other bullies (like you) to think BEFORE they act. For as you should already know, ALL choices have consequences. Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.
Fake
02/08/2011 01:24 am
They're called [double] standards...get some :p
Bond
02/08/2011 02:39 am
Takes12know1. You need to brush up on your reading skills. Maybe then you will correctly interpret Viz' comment.
invisibleholstein
02/08/2011 03:30 am
Ruin him? They are some stupid images that say "mulan" and "like a virgin". Not exactly life-altering, even a few months down the road.
Ace103
02/08/2011 03:49 am
Those websites are fake, and the girls that are in them Are porn stars
Blah
02/08/2011 03:53 am
The ex-girlfriend should be executed...publicly.
Can Da Spam
02/08/2011 04:13 am
"I won't name the individual in text on this page (because I do not want the page to rank for his name)" In other words, the author of this piffle didn't bother researching PageRank and doesn't know "how Google works."
Ally
02/08/2011 04:17 am
The girl is an idiot who can't handle reality. No man on earth owes her a date, let alone a relationship. People can end relationships whenever they damn well want and it's the other party's job to suck it up and move on...not dwell on it, cry about it, play victim, and seek revenge. Just shows what a needy, clingy, b*tch she was. I hope they sue the crap out of her.
Ally
02/08/2011 04:18 am
Correction: "needy, clingy, PSYCHO, b*tch"
Anemone999
02/08/2011 04:19 am
Not slander if it's true. I don't know specifically about this guy but, I've had some former partners whose true description would probably outrank anything this person wrote about her ex.
Laughing
02/08/2011 04:20 am
O h BOO HOO! He had his mommy respond for him!
Ally
02/08/2011 04:21 am
I hope someone rips your reputation (or your future children's reputations) to shreds for no good reason and we'll see how you handle it. Karma is a b*tch. That's all I'm gonna say.
Ally
02/08/2011 04:23 am
Just because your mother didn't give a rat's a** about you doesn't mean that other people's moms don't care about them. That's what moms are SUPPOSED to do. You are probably a crack-baby, though, so that would explain everything.
Ally
02/08/2011 04:26 am
Seriously. People who can't handle break-ups are my pet peeve. Serious dependency issues. Totally pathetic. And in need of therapy. Honestly, people who bug out that much due to a breakup to the point where they have to seek revenge do not deserve to exist. They are emotionally weak and manipulative pieces of sh*t that add nothing good to the world.
Jrinbellingham
02/08/2011 04:26 am
Hahaha! The guy looks like a douche. If he doesn't think that revenge trick is funny the two deserve each other. They should have got married, got divorced, found God and decried sin as reason the world is ending. All the offended people really take themselves too seriously. Grow up people. You're all just waiting to die anyways. A long, painful, lonely death. This is not worth anything other than a spank on the butt and one of those snickering 'you shouldn't do that' reprimands. And for all you dipsh*ts, if I had a girlfriend who ever wanted to do this to me, you'd bet I'd take it in stride. I'd even think it was a clever comeback.
Laughing
02/08/2011 04:29 am
Laughing all the way. I would never expect my Mom to fight my battles. He can stand up and be a man and fight his own.
Ally
02/08/2011 04:37 am
You don't know what went on between them. The mom probably went about it on her own. Or maybe the young man doesn't know the proper avenues to fight for himself legally. That's what parents are supposed to do. They are supposed to guide you through life's mazes when you are young so that you can do it on your own when you are older. This boy probably has no experience in the judicial system and maybe his parents do. What's wrong with them wanting to help. If a guy did this to me, not only would my mom be pissed, but my dad would personally give him a swift and hard a**-kicking! And I'm much older than this kid! Good parents always want to protect their children.It doesn't mean the children can't also protect themselves.
Why So Serious?
02/08/2011 04:45 am
Ally, you must be that douchebag's mommy. :D
tree
02/08/2011 04:47 am
cunts will do what they will do
blahblah
02/08/2011 04:49 am
Too funny! Sucks to be you buddy boy.
Laughing
02/08/2011 04:50 am
I concede part of this -I don't know what went on. I also do not appreciate being called a "crack baby" -much too old for that. My point is that this is between two individuals who are probably both minors, therefore on equal footing. And I was always taught to fight my own battles between my peers and never go home to cry to my parents. I, too, am MUCH older than this kid. Good parents always want to protect their kids, but protecting them, though not wrong, does not always help or prepare them for the real world. "Shit Happens" as the saying goes, and there isn't always someone there to hold your hand. Had great parents and I am not jaded, just always taught to be self-relient.
AllySucks
02/08/2011 04:50 am
Ally, you should post an image and your name so we can SEO, maybe he wouldnt feel all alone anymore and stop crying in the corner to his mommy.
phmadore
02/08/2011 04:51 am
Seemed to me like this twat was trying (with marginal success) to instigate some sort of exodus from the blog subscribership.
AllySucks
02/08/2011 04:51 am
Ally is too funny, probably another one of those liberals who cries about oil spills.
phmadore
02/08/2011 04:52 am
Weird to me how many people are pretending this dude doesn't look like a douche who deserves what he got. He's got all the age and wisdom of Justin Bieber with all the modeling skill of Paris Hilton. It's really something.
AllySucks
02/08/2011 04:53 am
Y0u are giving him far too much credit!
Blasterfish
02/08/2011 04:54 am
Awesome! This was a match made in Google heaven, a clingy insecure b!tch meets a pathetic mamas boy. Which one of these losers was the most high maintenance I wonder?
Whatsamatta_CantRead
02/08/2011 04:54 am
Whatsamatta_CantRead The article quoted the 'mommy' as saying that he was her MINOR son, which means he's a kid and not a legal adult. Either you aren't aware that a mother/parent/legal guardian has the right to speak for a minor, or you didn't read the complete article. As for the revenge thing, it's a good bet he probably deserved it.
phmadore
02/08/2011 04:57 am
http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/71/haters_2.gif
AllySucks
02/08/2011 04:58 am
Ally sucks.
AllySucks
02/08/2011 04:58 am
Ally sucks
Torquemada
02/08/2011 05:00 am
Totally! Because killing someone--taking someone's life--for the heinous act of overreacting to a bad breakup and spamming the ex's photo with some insulting captions on it is such a sensible and just thing to do. Maybe we should have her tortured, raped and let her slowly starve to death. Because, yeah, that's what morally upstanding citizens should expect. Hell, maybe stone her or crucify her her or feed her to piranhas.
Jewba
02/08/2011 05:17 am
Hopefully they sue her for defamation.
AngstAnon
02/08/2011 05:35 am
So he cried to his mommy? Funny, he looks older than five.
X3
02/08/2011 05:41 am
"her ex-boyfriend's professional taken picture" Barry, where is your editor?
Thrusday's Child
02/08/2011 05:44 am
Don't often read comments: now I remember why...
phmadore-the-whore
02/08/2011 05:49 am
dude, when you got out of prison for downloading all that child pornography, did you miss your cell mate's dick in your ass that much that you just can't wait to go back in?
eatme
02/08/2011 05:53 am
That would be you blasterfish ... you win the prize for most pathetic. Congratulations! What are you going to do now? Blasterfish: I'm playing xbox!!
eatme
02/08/2011 05:57 am
Impressive! You know how to spell SEO. Except it's not a verb. Do you know what a verb is? It's an action word like "suck" as in AllySucks likes to suck dick. Get it now?
ARG!
02/08/2011 06:05 am
How do we know this story is true if you won't tell us how to source it?
Bill W
02/08/2011 06:09 am
The ex is a cyber-stalker. No wonder he dumped her. She's nuts, and should have a restraining order placed on her.
fukew
02/08/2011 06:11 am
LOL eatme sounds like the porno boy described in the article
howdoyoulikemenow
02/08/2011 06:11 am
oh! what's this? http://www.memegenerator.net/phmadore/ImageMacro/5618004/Guess-whats-in-my-mouth-phmadore sorry dude ... payback's a bitch
eatme
02/08/2011 06:16 am
hahahaa good one. you got me. no wait. eat me.
tony
02/08/2011 07:26 am
I hate the living.....
JSPA
02/08/2011 07:36 am
She's clearly a homophobe, but if he and his family are not, they might to better to laugh it off (and if he takes this good a photo, I bet there's a modeling contract heading his way as a result of her supreme jerk move).
phmadore
02/08/2011 08:42 am
Bad ass! It's a joint, by the way.
Codyhuskyfluff
02/08/2011 09:10 am
Barry DESPERATELY needs an editor: "professional taken" should be PROFESSIONALLY taken "Vice Versa" (Visa Versa? Good grief.) "There Has" should be "there have" "little notes" ... really ... perhaps you mean "captions" ? How old is this blogger, 14?
retortingjk
02/08/2011 09:41 am
This girl just gave me a good idea to get back at someone >:)
Valid
02/08/2011 09:48 am
barry not only needs spelling assistance, but sentence structure, punctuation, grade school,
Schwartzscum
02/08/2011 10:02 am
You're still a scumbag and you should rot in hell. Your bullshit update saying that you don't want to mention the kid's name is total bullshit, you creep.
Douche Hater
02/08/2011 10:16 am
Whose joint? Didn't know that "joint" is another way of saying "cock"? Fucktard.
phmadore
02/08/2011 10:18 am
http://static.rcgroups.com/forums/attachments/2/2/8/3/8/3/a2958010-37-obamam-lol-y-u-mad-tho.jpg
joe blough
02/08/2011 10:44 am
Such brilliant observations from such a prolific scribe. I read your inane amateurish ramblings on your website. Where do YOU get off criticizing this guy who is apparently just the victim of a vengeful ex-gf and didn't ask for this attention? How does he "deserve what he got" in your feeble mind? Who the fuck are you? It's weird to me why such a gifted writer as yourself would waste time commenting on a non-story that appears in a forum for SEO. What a waste of skin.
phmadore
02/08/2011 10:50 am
http://static.rcgroups.com/forums/attachments/2/2/8/3/8/3/a2958010-37-obamam-lol-y-u-mad-tho.jpg
phmadore
02/08/2011 10:57 am
I won't be berated or criticized by someone without the guts to use their real name and/or photograph. I don't take the self-righteous all-mighty tone of importance that you and your various pseudonyms on this thread do. This is 2011, as if anyone needed a reminder. That means it's not 1911 and the chick had to do any legwork to get the job done. It's hilarious, is what it is. I don't remember where I read about it. Maybe Wired or something. But I come here and I see all these jokers getting hyphie about nothing. Do I feel bad for the kid? No. Why should I? If you did some real research you'd see that I've been berated in lengthy posts on high-traffic websites time and again. This doesn't lead me to change my name or involve my beleaguered mother. Anyway, the kid looks like a douche. The girl didn't just do it for no reason, and even if she did, the kid LOOKS like a douche, which was my only observation. How did he deserve it? Why, he gave her access to it and he was alive in 2011. What more do you need to deserve some humiliation in the era of open doors?
Arnold
02/08/2011 10:57 am
Pardon me, Barry, but is English your fist language?
No Chance Without Jeeves
02/08/2011 11:43 am
What a retarded little woman. The world would be better if these idiots would stay in their bunkers.
DrKnowe
02/08/2011 12:08 pm
.... said the person spending his time making a post about blasterfish.
Random
02/08/2011 01:28 pm
He was a minor - it doesn't say how old, but what would you do if you were a kid and this happened to you?
ian swift
02/08/2011 01:33 pm
what a jealous psycho. she needs to get over her ex boyfriend before she exhibits more unhealthy behavior.
Teasastips
02/08/2011 01:37 pm
A woman scorned.
Guzzo
02/08/2011 01:42 pm
Anyone now think a prenup isn't important?
rolandixor
02/08/2011 01:43 pm
I won't even bother to argue with you. No doubt women have been mistreated for much of our human history, and that is wrong, but a woman doing wrong in this manner shouldn't be just laughed off because "some men have mistreated women".
UhOh
02/08/2011 01:59 pm
I know right?! Guys should be able treat a girl however they please, even like a doormat if they wish. How dare a girl not bend over and take it like a good little girl should! Only a man is allowed to teach a woman a lesson, never the other way around!
dallas folts
02/08/2011 02:02 pm
nice this punk and his mom had it coming
amwood98
02/08/2011 02:02 pm
so I guess you were there and know what happened. Brilliant insight
Bitemybaud
02/08/2011 02:56 pm
Hey Barry, why would you automatically assume it was the young man's mother? How many mothers of a teenager do you know that can navigate Google forums? Maybe it was a father protecting his son. Since you don't seem to know or have the facts from a source, (unless you do have confirmation it was Mom and you just haven't been forthcoming with it) you might have brought even more senseless ridicule to an already volatile situation. Even though you're not an actual journalist Barry, shouldn't you at least check your facts before publishing irresponsibly? I could be wrong of course, but since you indicated it was his Mom, which provoked scores of posts slamming her for protecting her teenage son (and I ask, what mother wouldn't?), please feel free to at least confirm your statement is factual.
Barry Schwartz
02/08/2011 02:59 pm
Like I said before. It is not about the mother or the kid. The reason I posted was about the spam. The spam was there in Google Image Search. I showed a screen shot of it. I showed the search results. To me, the part of if it was or was not the mother is irrelevant to the typical reader of this site. Of course, this article is getting way more attention than beyond the SEO industry. But that is something I could not have anticipated.
Ergalendon
02/08/2011 04:11 pm
These were clearly put through the meme generator. I HIGHLY doubt any google manipulation is being done. More is going on here than meets the eye, for one, who searches for their own image in "google images"? On top of that, who tags their images with said query's name? I would go out on a limb and say that these were uploaded into the memegenerator probably as a joke and then became a lightning rod-mostly due to the boys 1980s dress. Too many questions unanswered to believe the angry girlfriend story.
ANRoquelaure
02/08/2011 04:13 pm
This guy needed the DeleteMe service: http://www.abine.com/deleteme
Brian D
02/08/2011 04:22 pm
It's getting to the point where a good tug before I go to bed is a lot better than dating...women are a PITA...it's not worth it most of the time.
Anonymous
02/08/2011 04:44 pm
What a fucking faggot...
Snowy753
02/08/2011 04:54 pm
I wonder why muslims veil their woman or why the chrisitian bible quotes it's better to have a woman of good moral values than an attractive woman..... THE BILE ALSO QUOTES IT' S BETTER TO LEAVE IN A CORNER OF THE HOUSE THAN WITH A QUARRELSOME WOMAN. For your info only.
Bobetgeds
02/08/2011 04:55 pm
HAHAHAHHAHAHAH He prob had it coming.
halligator
02/08/2011 06:07 pm
Leave in a corner of the house?--Leave?
Master8885
02/08/2011 06:07 pm
you know I thought women were all innocent when I was younger, then I get married to a hELL on 2 legs. Women are evil and they have evil intentions, ugly ones even good looking ones. They listened to the snake in the garden. they deserve to be treated like sh**,
Paleocene
02/08/2011 06:25 pm
at least he's not dating a crazy homophobic cunt. looks like he did himself a favor
The Analyzer
02/08/2011 06:31 pm
"Punk had it coming"? WTF do you personally know about this, oh wise sage? Let me analyze you, based on reading your comment -- you're a Texas-sized douche who always likes to offer his two cents to any discussion, you think you're a lot smarter than you actually are and you have a small dick. I got that just from reading your comment! Ain't I smart? Oh, yeah, you follow the Ellen Show on Twitter.
guest
02/08/2011 06:43 pm
behind every pissed off woman is a total jerk
Esperia
02/08/2011 06:43 pm
Someone is using your name to send out stupid posts.
Whoisbid
02/08/2011 06:46 pm
I hardly believe anything I see on the net these days. I have noticed deterioration of goodwill since PPC came. People will do anything to get money. The other day a friend of mine had a serious toothache and needed urgent treatment 24/7 Dental but his pain got even worse because of the amount of time he had to spend trying to find a Dentist open on a Sunday evening. All the results he was given was stuff done by SEO's who had been targeting those keywords but not giving actual information on any reputable company who could offer those services. Oh well!
Guest
02/08/2011 06:51 pm
BILE?! Hmmm.
Robert
02/08/2011 06:53 pm
i h8 her, she's like gaga lady
Tecnogoddess
02/08/2011 06:53 pm
I like to reference The Bile, too. "Thou shalt not eat pablanos before thou'st succumbs to slumber". So true.
Streisand Effect
02/08/2011 06:55 pm
It won't be long before teh internetz track down HER picture. As a woman sick of this kind of catty, juvenile estrogenwebz behavior, I can'tz waitz 2c it. Who's betting she's got bodacious backfat?
Bkessler0606
02/08/2011 06:57 pm
It's not women, it's certain types of human beings, both male and female. Men have behaved like lunatics, too, plenty of times throughout history. So you had a bad experience with one woman. Many women have had bad experiences with one man. That's life. Your job is to be smart enough to recognize when someone isn't quite sane or safe BEFORE you get involved with her. If you can't do that, you need professional help. But don't tar all women with the same brush. That would be as stupid as a woman's claiming that all men were sons of bitches on the basis of one or two bad experiences.
Kevbar
02/08/2011 07:04 pm
Error 404 - Dignity Not Found
life-form
02/08/2011 07:08 pm
This is just one of many examples of how the Internet has destroyed privacy; past, present and future. Personal business is now the whole world's business and it violates common decency. Time-passing and one's physical location used to ensure a good deal of privacy. Drones who say some things are "public record anyhow" do not get the point. The EASE with which information can be disseminated is highly unnatural.
life-form
02/08/2011 07:14 pm
Good point. People who hang out with fakes and psychos have only themselves to blame after awhile. You have to keep your survival instincts and pay attention to the signs. I'd say there's more abuse from the male to female direction than vice versa, though women can be emotional volcanoes without warning. Usually it's low self esteem or outright misandry.
life-form
02/08/2011 07:15 pm
I hope people see that the very publishing of this story increased the impact exponentially. They could have respected the guy's dignity and buried the story. The "free press" is the worst reputation-trasher of them all.
Guesta
02/08/2011 07:20 pm
Girl needs to get her shit together...hahaha.
Jonco
02/08/2011 07:30 pm
Well said. I wonder why this site has taken it upon themselves to show his picture. That just posts it all over again. The story could have been told without showing his picture; the article is about him being violated after all. The reason for the break-up is unclear, however what this immature girl did should be considered criminal and slanderous.
Heybog
02/08/2011 07:32 pm
thats some funny ish
Snstaples
02/08/2011 07:38 pm
I'm sure that chick is a demon in the sack
J9
02/08/2011 07:43 pm
You might want to add that the results generated by the story's link are NSFW.
Pravitus
02/08/2011 07:50 pm
Poor boy had to get his momma to help. Maybe indicating a part of the root cause ?
Rabid Nerd
02/08/2011 08:08 pm
Saw this on the front page of Google News, no less, lol... That's where I came from!
Barry Schwartz
02/08/2011 08:09 pm
Weird, I specifically set the page to be removed from Google. See http://www.seroundtable.com/robots.txt
12volts
02/08/2011 08:16 pm
A friend told me during my divorce 20 yrs. ago, a phrase I believe holds true to this young man. " It's the Bleeping you get, for the Bleeping you got. Since he is NOT a celebrity, he may have the right to sue her.
Rabid Nerd
02/08/2011 08:18 pm
It's not on my homepage any more, but if I search Google News for "girlfriend spams" (and it's not something I was actually LOOKING FOR, mind you) it's still #1.. I don't doubt you're taking your due diligence.. Alas, with Google, here there be dragons..
Barry Schwartz
02/08/2011 08:20 pm
I guess Google News still has it in their index. But main Google search won't rank the article for his name or for any keyword. It is completely removed. Try http://www.google.com/search?q=http://www.seroundtable.com/boyfriend-spammed-12909.html
daviejroe
02/08/2011 08:38 pm
what a pussy.
daviejroe
02/08/2011 08:39 pm
behind every jerk, is a cunt.
daviejroe
02/08/2011 08:39 pm
no, its women.
Eustace2
02/08/2011 08:51 pm
gb2 4chan, faggot.
Eustace2
02/08/2011 08:53 pm
It would have been funny if any of the captions were funny. But they weren't...
Fanny Mae
02/08/2011 09:03 pm
It's going to be hilarious when an upset boyfriend does the same thing to some woman with nude pictures. That's going to be funny. I'm sure the media will post links and write that story with humor.
Denn G
02/08/2011 09:11 pm
There's a big fucking difference between a picture of a clothed man and a picture of a naked woman.
Denn G
02/08/2011 09:12 pm
If you're so fucking suck of this behavior, why are you perpetuating it?
Bob
02/08/2011 09:34 pm
No shit...thats why it would be funny.
phmadore
02/08/2011 09:57 pm
Says the anonymous choad.
FruitsChinpoSamurai
02/09/2011 12:22 am
Your opinions are so very wrong. There is a greater amount of anonymity now than in the past. Just look at how sensationalized someone's life has to become before they garner the smallest amount of attention. A right to privacy is not something that has ever existed in human history...at least not until the U.S. Supreme Court created it in the 1970s. So complain all you like about Libel or Slander in the Information Age, but its not going anywhere, its been around for millenia. Fortunately for victims today people are far more cynical than in the past.
1Amongmany
02/09/2011 12:23 am
Had this been a boy doing this to a girl, the media would not think it was funny. There;'s a clear double standard in this country.
hopsing
02/09/2011 12:52 am
I hope they sue google to within a dollar of their existence.
phmadore
02/09/2011 01:33 am
Everybody Wang Chung tonight.
Brad
02/09/2011 02:27 am
Yeah, it's Google's fault the girl posted the images... You ruin this country.
DrAltaica
02/09/2011 03:18 am
>The EASE with which information can be disseminated is highly unnatural. Unnateral you say? You are forgetting the old proverb, "You can outrun the cop but you can't outrun his radio." You going to say that cops have to go back to talking to each other by meeting face to face and using hard lines because using wireless communication, disseminates information about the suspected crime in a highly unnatural way. what about law enforcement's computerized databases that's "highly unnatural" too.
Austin
02/09/2011 05:11 am
No homo bro. jk all homo.
Jackson
02/09/2011 05:47 am
Mom getting involved is far more embarrassing than the act itself. Sorry kid.
DrAltaica
02/09/2011 07:06 am
>I'd say there's more abuse from the male to female direction than vice versa, >though women can be emotional volcanoes without warning. >Usually it's low self esteem or outright misandry. Damn straight! when Women abuse man it is usually just the make her feel better about herself or just outright misandry. While there is more abuse from men to women, it doesn't come from misogyny or the man trying to make himself feel better, practically all of male on female abuse is justified use of punishment, all be it the men is using the wrong type of punishment. Like they say, "when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail"
DrAltaica
02/09/2011 07:26 am
you read the article? "My minor son's ex-girlfriend took a copyrighted picture of him (we own copyright) and uploaded it more than 60 times to a website" That means ether his ex-girlfriend is a minor also and/or she is a sexual predator. ether way you can expect them "catty, juvenile" judging from the sexual nature of her acts I'd say his ex-GF is a rapist. http://www.aest.org.uk/survivors/male/myths_about_male_rape.htm
DrAltaica
02/09/2011 07:37 am
Unfortunately this boy most like isn't the jerk behind the rapist that was pretending to be his girlfriend. The jerk behind this boy's ex-GF was most likely her parents.
Nick Kaufmann
02/09/2011 07:48 am
whoa and now the search results are showing pictures of the search results... he's multiplying!
DrAltaica
02/09/2011 07:55 am
In general, the extensive research on rape myths shows that male and female victims tend to be perceived in accordance with gender stereotypes. For instance, male victims tend to incur blame when they fail to adhere to the male stereotype (ie, being in control, unemotional, and able to fend off attack), whereas female victims incur blame according to specific characteristics (ie, if they were perceived as passive, vulnerable, or sexual). http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/528821_2
DrAltaica
02/09/2011 07:57 am
You do know that this kid's ex posted nude pics of him too?
william76
02/09/2011 08:02 am
"Pancake Nipples"? At least if you're going to play the "at least I have a sense of humor" card, make sure it's funny. Youtube trollies are funnier than this girl. The comments show how dumbed down the modern net audience's sense of humor is: The "ICANHAZCHEEZBURGER?" font is this generation's canned laughter cue-card and APPLAUSE sign. There is no way that this is the first time this has been done, just probably the first time the public has picked up on it and put out a story. Change just a couple elements of the story and we'd have this pop up elsewhere under "Cyberbullying" with the usual comment trolls calling his sexuality and "manhood" into play (unless of course it was a female, then they'd go after her looks) - the two go-to arguments of low class buzzards who think this entitles them pros when it comes to their own manhood in which the excel only in stroking. This isn't just a Facebook profile (like those featured in most 'cyberbully' pieces), this might be bounced along long enough for future employers, friends, and girlfriends to be turned off -- regardless of how irrelevant it actually would be in a realistic context.
Danger
02/09/2011 08:21 am
This to all u stupid posts. opinions are like, A__HOLE. everybodys got one.............LOL
william76
02/09/2011 08:50 am
...
Bluesdude88
02/09/2011 02:38 pm
Hey, payback is a Bitch, Bitch! I'm sure my man is gonna come up with a good one.
Supporter
02/09/2011 02:54 pm
Barry, don't worry about those negative comments, you did a great job!
Foo
02/09/2011 03:26 pm
Detente only works when people understand MAD. In this case, escalation might occur, since the action was well over-the-top. The lesson is not, "Before you upset your girlfriend or boyfriend, make sure they do not know how Google works," but rather, "Don't seek out silly retribution. It might cost you your life." Smart people remain quiet, and take things as a learning experience. Stupid people play tit-for-tat. Which do you prefer?
Hogeyd
02/09/2011 03:41 pm
Proves to me the guy made the right decision by moving on; anytime in the future her unfortunate husband-to-be upsets her, she's media-encouraged to do something like this. This guy got off easy, the husband I pray for...
Danger
02/09/2011 05:58 pm
Cleopatra gave fellatio to her soldiers before they went to WAR.......... I guess whenever she was hungry, she declared war.Woman can't live with them and cant live without them....................LIFE
Dirt67
02/09/2011 06:33 pm
For ur info. psychological trauma is worse than physical trauma
Trippy
02/09/2011 09:51 pm
This rambling post sounds like it was written by that "clever" guy we all seem to know. You know the type: elitist and boring. Listen, honey, leave the big people talk to the adults, OK? Now go clean your room.
JL
02/09/2011 10:26 pm
You try too hard.
Swen.Ardere
02/09/2011 10:52 pm
Wow. Hurling slurs anonymously. That must take a lot of courage.
Swen.Ardere
02/09/2011 10:54 pm
Actually, if you knew the definition of "chauvinism", you wouldn't have just made that stupid remark. It's you who is ignorant of the definition.
Fools2234
02/09/2011 10:59 pm
Your kidding right? How about you ask the thousands of men that are falsely accused of rape/dv/child abuse by women (especially during custody battles) oh and who is almost always awarded the children and child support and alimony and who gets the house? The woman so keep that "oh women are just soo oppressed" bs way of thinking to yourself. How many national offices do women have dedicated to their health again??? 10 men have 0, which gender constantly gets away with crime? google "Judged bashes Probation Department for gender bias in favor of leniency for girls" Yes but those poor oppressed dears. Oh and according to a certain law (affirmitive action) the woman is hired over a similarly qualified man..but im sure you being the super mangina that you are see no problem with that or any of the issues ive typed huh
william76
02/09/2011 11:39 pm
Good grief - way to put me in my place without putting me in my place. Am I an immature little shit or that boring dick that everyone knows? I can't be both. There is nothing elitist or clever about my previous post. Where is your 'big person' contribution to this discussion? Twitter is that-a-way, sug... now fill up my coffee. lololol! Is that better?
Emton
02/10/2011 05:02 am
This is really funny!
Emton
02/10/2011 05:06 am
Blowjob sounds so much better than fellatio.
WV SEO
02/11/2011 04:09 pm
Yeah Barry, don't worry that your story will probably cause this poor kid years of therapy and force him to change his name. That's not really important ... what's important is that you wrote a piece that tells the SEO community exactly nothing about how to prevent this from happening to them or to their clients. In the end, the only true measure of editorial success is the number of comments your story generates and from the looks of it, this one hit it out of the park ... so, yeah, great job!
WV SEO
02/11/2011 04:19 pm
It's no more Google's fault that she posted these images than it is Glock's fault for creating a gun magazine that can hold over 30 rounds of ammunition when used to wipe out a crowd of people in Tucson. But unlike Glock who has no ability to do anything about this after the fact, Google does. Google can take down the images from their search index and fix this but they choose not too out of some stupid notion of not "censoring the Internet" (except of course if you participate in a link building scheme - which we all know is an unforgivable crime for which you must be banished from the search results.) Google should be embarrassed. This makes what Bing did look like child's play. At least Bing's image results don't have this problem.
Julien ringard
02/12/2011 02:06 pm
Very good
grovberg
02/14/2011 03:15 pm
If being mildly embarrassed on the internet forces one into years of therapy, then he and everyone else is in for a rough century.
WV SEO
02/14/2011 03:44 pm
"mildly embarrassed"?!?! If you think that's the extent of what happened, then you're pretty clueless and you really should just keep your mouth shut. You can speak again when your name and picture has been mocked on countless Internet news sites and blogs. Oh, and you have to be a teenager too AND everyone who knows you has to know about this ... and it doesn't count if this happens to you as an adult. Yes, we are in for a rough century. We have sacrificed our common decency in the name of free speech and we no longer "care" about what happens to whom.
grovberg
02/14/2011 04:09 pm
Dude, you don't know a thing about me and my experiences, so you can take your judgement and stuff it. And unless I missed something, I don't need your permission to speak. Here, I have an extra clue that I can lend you... Yes, having naughty words written on pictures of you by an ex-girlfriend posted on the internet counts as mild embarrassment. It sucks for awhile, it becomes old news, you get over it, then it becomes a fun story you tell at parties. If you date more than a couple people since the advent of the internet, this kind of thing is doing to happen. Would he rather she keyed it into his car? Hell, the images are already gone from the image search. It's just part of life and he can either man-up and get over it or cry about it a bunch. Neither is going to change the facts and the latter is likely to just embarrass him further. Which is all you're doing by crying for him.
WV SEO
02/14/2011 04:15 pm
No you don't need my permission to speak. Free speech. I get it. Say whatever the hell you want. And I really didn't expect you to see things from any point of view other than your own. So you just dig in and own those opinions. They're all yours.
Daniel Chavez Moran
02/15/2011 10:12 pm
Hilarious.
No Chance Without Jeeves
02/22/2011 03:48 am
Why do people encourage these little piece of crap? Seriously something ought to be done with this stupid woman. Society encourages woman this behavior and then they blame men for this crap. They claim the "man" is out to get them. What a load of crap.
Roshan
03/22/2011 05:49 am
Time for the guy to hire a professional SEO for comeback!!
Aandres Croxatto
09/22/2011 11:46 am
Hi Barry, why is this page blocked in robots.txt?
Barry Schwartz
09/22/2011 11:47 am
I was asked to block it by the family.
Andres C
10/13/2011 02:00 pm
Hi Barry, do you know that this page is indexed despite is blocked in robots.txt? Seems to be because of the +1 button
Andres C
10/13/2011 02:04 pm
Sorry Update, it is not exactly indexed, there is not cache and not snippet ..
mlauzon
10/13/2011 02:21 pm
Any journalistic integrity you had, went out the door!
Alan Charnock
10/18/2011 02:31 pm
Poor fella bet he takes the time to either learn some google tricks or be nice from now on.
Manchester Trouser Warrior
10/18/2011 03:25 pm
Any idea what a meme is?
Nagesh Shukla
06/02/2018 12:09 pm
was seeing your robots.txt file and got this page. curiosity bought me to this page!