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11 months ago
in Google Search Won’t Return Links to cato-at-liberty.org on The Technology Liberation Front
As my suspicions about some of Google's motives lately have been growing faster than the National Debt, I've started using Lycos, and going to Google only in the rare instances that the latter returned insufficient results.
Searches for "cato-at-liberty" and "cato-at-liberty.org" had some results worth mentioning.
Searching on the domain name should return the website hosted there as result#1. Google didn't. Lycos and hotbot did.
Searching for just "cato-at-liberty" on Google, returned ONE result from cato-at-liberty.COM ... On the others, "maybe a couple" for cato-at-liberty.org were returned.
I'd absolutely *love* to be able to accuse Google of something evil, like censoring ideas they oppose, but the other engines denied me of that pleasure :(
Can you get the access logs for the cato-at-liberty site? If so, you should search them for visits by the search engine "crawlers". Here's who visited me in the last day-and-a half:
crawler4035.ask.com
crawl-17.cuill.com
msnbot-65-55-208-211.search.msn.com
livebot-65-55-208-211.search.live.com
crawl-66-249-71-66.googlebot.com
.. search for "googlebot", for Google's crawler
"msnbot", "livebot", for Microsoft's
and, "crawl" for the others.
I get visited daily. Cato-at-liberty should be crawled by each at least daily, maybe more.. If daily crawls are not happening, that's one thing to fix, otherwise, something is chasing them away, once the get there.
You can't take potshots at this problem. You need to know whether the 'bots are trying to do their job, first.
Feel free to use my email address to contact me if you'd like me to help further.
Regards,
Nick
Searches for "cato-at-liberty" and "cato-at-liberty.org" had some results worth mentioning.
Searching on the domain name should return the website hosted there as result#1. Google didn't. Lycos and hotbot did.
Searching for just "cato-at-liberty" on Google, returned ONE result from cato-at-liberty.COM ... On the others, "maybe a couple" for cato-at-liberty.org were returned.
I'd absolutely *love* to be able to accuse Google of something evil, like censoring ideas they oppose, but the other engines denied me of that pleasure :(
Can you get the access logs for the cato-at-liberty site? If so, you should search them for visits by the search engine "crawlers". Here's who visited me in the last day-and-a half:
crawler4035.ask.com
crawl-17.cuill.com
msnbot-65-55-208-211.search.msn.com
livebot-65-55-208-211.search.live.com
crawl-66-249-71-66.googlebot.com
.. search for "googlebot", for Google's crawler
"msnbot", "livebot", for Microsoft's
and, "crawl" for the others.
I get visited daily. Cato-at-liberty should be crawled by each at least daily, maybe more.. If daily crawls are not happening, that's one thing to fix, otherwise, something is chasing them away, once the get there.
You can't take potshots at this problem. You need to know whether the 'bots are trying to do their job, first.
Feel free to use my email address to contact me if you'd like me to help further.
Regards,
Nick
1 year ago
in The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » ID Checks are About Control, Not Security on The Technology Liberation Front
It gets worse... Amtrak "requires" ID too...
Per Amtrak's "PASSENGER IDENTIFICATION" FAQ Page:
(http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pag...)
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Random Ticket/ID Checks
Following federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA) guidelines, we regularly conduct random ticket verification checks onboard trains to ensure that passengers are properly ticketed. Please be prepared to show valid photo identification to a member of the onboard crew upon request.
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Worse Yet...
Since Amtrak runs California's "Capitol Corridor" route for the State, they also require one to carry ID to ride that route. That opens up tha "slippery slope", where, the same requiremwnt could be adpoted by the Heavy-rail Caltrain SF Peninsula service, then BART, then other local transit agencies, like SF's Muni. One could eventually need an ID document to ride to bus to _apply_ for one! More absurd, would be one in the position of being "short" on documentation to get a REAL ID -- hope he doesn't have to travel to get a duplicate Birth Certificate!
I've scoured the TSA website for the "guidelines" that Amtrak mentions, and found nothing. Considering tha fact that Capitol Corridor tickets can be bought with cash, at a vending machine, the requirement to posess photo ID to ride one of those trains could make sense only to an Authoritarian bureaucrat.
Whoops! I'm wrong. Up in the Sierras, there's a snowball with a keen interest in this "slippery slope", as it offers him what the most expert-level ski runs up there can't. He'll shock us all, as we witness his lifelong dream of making it to Hell come true.
Too bad that we'll all be along for the ride. ID or no ID.
-NK
Per Amtrak's "PASSENGER IDENTIFICATION" FAQ Page:
(http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pag...)
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Random Ticket/ID Checks
Following federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA) guidelines, we regularly conduct random ticket verification checks onboard trains to ensure that passengers are properly ticketed. Please be prepared to show valid photo identification to a member of the onboard crew upon request.
----------
Worse Yet...
Since Amtrak runs California's "Capitol Corridor" route for the State, they also require one to carry ID to ride that route. That opens up tha "slippery slope", where, the same requiremwnt could be adpoted by the Heavy-rail Caltrain SF Peninsula service, then BART, then other local transit agencies, like SF's Muni. One could eventually need an ID document to ride to bus to _apply_ for one! More absurd, would be one in the position of being "short" on documentation to get a REAL ID -- hope he doesn't have to travel to get a duplicate Birth Certificate!
I've scoured the TSA website for the "guidelines" that Amtrak mentions, and found nothing. Considering tha fact that Capitol Corridor tickets can be bought with cash, at a vending machine, the requirement to posess photo ID to ride one of those trains could make sense only to an Authoritarian bureaucrat.
Whoops! I'm wrong. Up in the Sierras, there's a snowball with a keen interest in this "slippery slope", as it offers him what the most expert-level ski runs up there can't. He'll shock us all, as we witness his lifelong dream of making it to Hell come true.
Too bad that we'll all be along for the ride. ID or no ID.
-NK
