Mr transformer
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- Jun 21, 2011
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I am not freaking joking here.
If you go online with an older computer with IE5, or 6 or some other obsolete browser, you can get real gun and ammo results in google shopping.
I was using a old DSL (damn small Linux) live cd, and before I shut it down to go back to the regular OS, I decided to bring up the web browser it has (a rehashed old version of firefox, aka bonecho) to search google shopping for something. After one or two searches I decided to type in “stevens 200” to see if they had anything related to that particular rifle. (I thought) I knew that no actual rifles would come up on the search, just things that may be related to them. And to my wonderment, a full page of rifles were staring me in the face, with prices. I tried clicking on some of them and they was full working links to the retailers in question.
After coming to grips with that bombshell, I shut down DSL and went to the normal operating system on the computer and brought up a modern browser. I repeated my search as a reality check, and no rifles came up on the search.
I went to one of the old computers on the back room work bench. It has windows ME and IE6. Tried google shopping with that, and got results that had real guns and ammo, with current updated prices and working links.
It seems that the retailers are still feeding the gun data through to google with the rest of their products, but google is just filtering the offending items out.
The problem is they seem to have only implemented the filtering for the web pages generated for current browsers. No one took the time to load the filtering engine into the code that generates the web results for older, or non compliant browsers.
Or…. Someone intentionally “forgot” because they knew that the bosses will never know… Because they know the bosses will never be using an old browser to view their site.
I wonder how long it will last……?
If you go online with an older computer with IE5, or 6 or some other obsolete browser, you can get real gun and ammo results in google shopping.
I was using a old DSL (damn small Linux) live cd, and before I shut it down to go back to the regular OS, I decided to bring up the web browser it has (a rehashed old version of firefox, aka bonecho) to search google shopping for something. After one or two searches I decided to type in “stevens 200” to see if they had anything related to that particular rifle. (I thought) I knew that no actual rifles would come up on the search, just things that may be related to them. And to my wonderment, a full page of rifles were staring me in the face, with prices. I tried clicking on some of them and they was full working links to the retailers in question.
After coming to grips with that bombshell, I shut down DSL and went to the normal operating system on the computer and brought up a modern browser. I repeated my search as a reality check, and no rifles came up on the search.
I went to one of the old computers on the back room work bench. It has windows ME and IE6. Tried google shopping with that, and got results that had real guns and ammo, with current updated prices and working links.
It seems that the retailers are still feeding the gun data through to google with the rest of their products, but google is just filtering the offending items out.
The problem is they seem to have only implemented the filtering for the web pages generated for current browsers. No one took the time to load the filtering engine into the code that generates the web results for older, or non compliant browsers.
Or…. Someone intentionally “forgot” because they knew that the bosses will never know… Because they know the bosses will never be using an old browser to view their site.
I wonder how long it will last……?
