Stupid Sysadmin Tricks

Being some half-baked thoughts about the foibles of system-controllers and system-users and the occasional hopeless "luser".

Interesting Web Queries

I noticed the other day that in my httpd referer_log I could often see the query people entered to find a page on my system through one of the search engines. Some of the queries are interesting in one way or another themselves; others are interesting for what they found. Here are some unretouched extracts from /var/adm/http/referer_log. Enjoy!

You can probably learn something about constructing queries from these examples, too :-). And remember, these aren't just hits returned; the user actually followed up the link.

Remember, while I can see the referral linkages, I can't see what users (or user names, or from the logs as currently constituted even the IP addresses) made the queries. So don't worry about what queries you submit too much.

pmhost30.admin.jeffco.k12.co.us - - [18/Jun/1998:00:42:41 -0500] "GET /olegv/ HTTP/1.0" 200 3390 "http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=nude+cartoons" "Mozilla/3.01 (Macintosh; I; PPC)"

http://webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/WebQuery?jacking+off -> /headcrash/back_cov.html

http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/tables/BTitles?qt=fashion+model+search-male&col=WW&st=30 -> /olegv/info.html

http://lycos-tmp1.psc.edu/cgi-bin/pursuit?first=21&maxhits=10&minterms=1&minscore=0.01&terse=standard&query=xxx+rated+stories -> /olegv/renfest/hub.shtml

http://nineteen.srv.lycos.com/cgi-bin/pursuit?query=xxx+photos&matchmode=or&minscore=.1&maxhits=10&terse=standard -> /olegv/renfest/hub.shtml

http://metacrawler.cs.washington.edu:8080/htbin-post/nph-metaquery.p?general=young+%2Bgirl+%2Bnude+&logic=0®ion=The+World&orgType=Any&maxwait=1&score=0 -> /olegv/pictures.html

http://altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=aq&what=web&fmt=.&q=gong+near+li+and+nude&r=&d0=&d1= -> /olegv/volk_o.shtml

http://altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=aq&what=web&stq=110&nbq=10&fmt=&q=emma+NEAR+%2ejpg -> /photo/

Here's one that actually found exactly what it was looking for, I think: http://altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=web&fmt=.&q=%22Elizabeth+Clement%22 -> /minicon30/bhigg-house.html

Another winner: http://altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=web&fmt=.&q=%22Glen+Cook%22 -> /mnstf/minicon/history/minicon30/at-con-pages/cook.html

http://altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=web&fmt=.&q=calimari+recipes -> /headcrash/copyr.html

Nope, not quite. http://altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=web&q=pamela+anderson+pics+nudes+naked&Submit=Submit -> /olegv/renfest/hub.shtml

http://altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=web&stq=140&nbq=10&fmt=d&q=%22Stan+Rogers%22 -> /minicon30/at-con-pages/articles/lakrahn-music-report.html

Note the sophisticated query. http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/IS/frames/BTitles?qt=nude+models+girls+-men&col=WW&st=60 -> /olegv/pictures.html

http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/IS/tables/Titles?qt=%2BTatge%2C+geneology&col=WW -> /mnstf/einblatt/einblatt-199510.html

http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/Titles?qt=%22cyrano+de+bergerac%22&col=WW -> /olegv/home.html

Another winner, and an unexpected one. http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/Titles?qt=%22moslem+dress%22&col=WW -> /olegv/asylum/asylum.html

Does persistence pay off? Not this time. http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/Titles?qt=%5Bcollege+girl+nude%5D&col=WW -> /olegv/pictures.html
http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/Titles?qt=%5Bnude+college+girl%5D&col=WW -> /olegv/pictures.html

Serious persistence. http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/Titles?qt=models+nude+photo+download&col=WW -> /olegv/info.html
http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/Titles?qt=models-nude&col=WW -> /olegv/asylum/asylum.html
http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/Titles?qt=nude+fashion+models&col=WW -> /olegv/info.html
http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/Titles?qt=nude+modeling&col=WW -> /olegv/info.html
http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/Titles?qt=nude+models&col=WW -> /olegv/info.html
http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/Titles?qt=old+models&col=WW -> /olegv/info.html

http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/Titles?qt=sensual+ladies&col=WW -> /olegv/duluth/marg.shtml

Another one tries hard. http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/frames/BTitles?qt=%5Bfamous+nude%5D&col=WW&st=10 -> /olegv/pictures.html
http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/frames/BTitles?qt=%5Bnude+college%5D&col=WW&st=0 -> /olegv/pictures.html
http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/frames/BTitles?qt=%5Bnude+models%5D&col=WW&st=10 -> /olegv/info.html

Well, there's something different for a change. http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/frames/BTitles?qt=photo+golf&col=WW&st=10 -> /olegv/trippage.html

http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/tables/BTitles?qt=%5Bamateur%5D+%5Bnude%5D+%5Bmodel%5D&col=WW&st=90 -> /olegv/info.html

Wonder how this happened? http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/tables/BTitles?qt=anabolic&rel=330646&col=WW&st=70 -> /olegv/home.html

Probably not a satisfied customer. http://guide-p.infoseek.com/WW/NS/tables/BTitles?qt=blond+men+photo&col=WW&st=10 -> /olegv/olivia/olivia.html

I wonder if this was ever true? It's not true now; no such link on 28-Feb-96. http://hamming.mathcs.carleton.edu/ -> /

http://altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=web&fmt=.&q=cheat*+ma rried+nymphomanic+iso+affair*+picture*+snapshot*+-video*+-movie*+-cdrom* -> /samos/snaps.shtml

http://www.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=web&fmt=.&q=porn+porno+star+%2Bshockwave+%2Bsex -> /mnstf/minicon/history/minicon30/at-con-pages/shockwave-top-11.html

Another satisfied customer? http://searcher.mckinley.com/searcher.cgi?query=picture+shave+pussy&f=8&rr=1&las=2&start=2 -> /olegv/ddb/ddb_cat.html

http://query.webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/random -> /not-netscape-dependent.shtml

http://searcher.mckinley.com/searcher.cgi?query=naked+picture+of+pamala+anderson -> /sf/mc28-classic-sf/minicon-28-classic-sf-list.fmt

http://www.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=web&stq=10&fmt=.&q=shave+of+the+day -> /olegv/ddb/ddb_cat.shtml

So where do we go from here?

This should be interesting; because all the keywords people are searching for are now concentrated on this one page....

Now, what else can we do? Do the indexers index comments? Do they index the words in internal labels? I have a facinating idea, but I'm not ready to mention it yet :-) .


[Minicon] [Minn-StF] [dd-b] [site status] [pit]
Last modified Thursday, 03-Feb-2000 06:09:35 PST.
This page has been accessed times.
David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@dd-b.net>