Why would somebody make this bizzare website?

August 31, 2007 10:49 PM

What is the purpose of this website? Al'Qadea code? Bizzare marketing scheme? Something even more sinister?

I googled the phrase "dick van dyke appliance connection to actor" in an attempt to discover if the appliance store in central Illinois was related to the actor who was raised in Danville, Illinois. On the front page of links was this strage link, which doesn't seem to be serving any purpose other than to cyber squat on a url that seem exceedingly unlikely to be wanted by anyone, ever. Any better ideas?

posted by keep_evolving to computers & internet (21 comments total)

NSFW btw.

It's just a keyword spam page. Automated programs look at referring URLs to see what people searched for, someone in the past probably searched for 'dick van dyke' and hit another spam page, program thought it was good, created that page in response.
posted by mattdini at 10:52 PM on August 31, 2007

Welcome to the intertubes, you googled dick and dyke, you got a porn site.
posted by iamabot at 10:52 PM on August 31, 2007 [1 favorite]

NSFW!
posted by knowles at 10:53 PM on August 31, 2007

I doubt Al Qaeda communicates with porn, but if they do, the right wing is gonna have a field day.

It's random porn keyword spam, and don't post crap like that without a warning.
posted by furiousxgeorge at 10:57 PM on August 31, 2007

Alright, but can anyone explain the bizarre leap-frog style double-scroll bars?
posted by KingoftheWhales at 11:01 PM on August 31, 2007

Its to stop porn filters. They put up non-porn text.
posted by damn dirty ape at 11:08 PM on August 31, 2007

Careful - malware abounds at that site - you might not see it since it apparently rotates pages and changes content, but make sure your AV is up-to-date.
posted by aberrant at 11:22 PM on August 31, 2007 [2 favorites]

doesn't seem to be serving any purpose other than to cyber squat on a url that seem exceedingly unlikely to be wanted by anyone, ever

You seem to have totally overlooked the fact that you found the page through google while searching for something so it clearly has served its intended purpose -- to get hits and make money selling ads and malware.
posted by Rhomboid at 11:27 PM on August 31, 2007

Also notable for the first justified use of the blink tag I've seen.
posted by anthill at 11:29 PM on August 31, 2007 [3 favorites]

thanks, anthill. I debated whether or not to blink/bold it, but glad to see it's getting attention. It appears there are a couple recent variants of the Storm virus that it's trying to push but I'm not at a machine where I can do some further analysis.
posted by aberrant at 11:31 PM on August 31, 2007

Keyword spam. They want you to click on the pictures of semen dripping out of vaginas so they can make money. That dick van dyke and so on thing is just a subdomain, they just paid for "tipsheetfile.cn" and then put the keywords into a subdomain, like cocks-cocks-cocks.tipsheetfile.cn and such.

Also this is probably the first time a direct link to butt-fucking, lesbians, dicks, and cum-drenched vaginas, all on one page, has been posted on AskMe.
posted by punishinglemur at 11:36 PM on August 31, 2007

Can we kill this thread? It seems to have already fulfilled it's purpose as well, and no good can come of leaving it up.
posted by The Deej at 11:38 PM on August 31, 2007 [2 favorites]

Mods might be asleep and therefore not up for killing the thread. M and J aren't on chat anyway...
posted by serazin at 11:43 PM on August 31, 2007

Yep, I know. I emailed. Hard to kill in your sleep. But I didn't think they let Cortex sleep, being the n00b and all.
posted by The Deej at 11:47 PM on August 31, 2007

Flag it if you haven't already....
posted by aberrant at 11:49 PM on August 31, 2007

Done. My "kill it" comment was to encourage others to do the same.
posted by The Deej at 11:50 PM on August 31, 2007

yeahhh... i was surprised to see such filth on askme....
posted by kraigory at 12:01 AM on September 1, 2007

I flagged it as well, hey jess/matt/cortez, if you need a late night eastern time moderator get in touch with me ;P
posted by furiousxgeorge at 12:01 AM on September 1, 2007

It seems to have already fulfilled it's purpose as well, and no good can come of leaving it up.

From my experience, you should always check with the girlfriend first.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 12:08 AM on September 1, 2007

I wish I would have clicked on the comments before clicking that god damn link. I am at work, an luckily the page was BLOCKED by filter software, but none the less this kind of shit pisses me off.

We need a way to mark content as questionable or NSFW in case the poster decides not to. I will say that this page must incorporate some pretty special code being that it completely fucked with the 'Blocked' page that our company uses. I have seen that page many times and NEVER has the background been gray and the text screwed as it was.
posted by B(oYo)BIES at 12:10 AM on September 1, 2007

Flagged. keep_evolving, you NEED to warn people if you're attaching a link to a porn site.
posted by triggerfinger at 2:47 AM on September 1, 2007