{"id":613,"date":"2006-01-30T14:33:24","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T19:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2006-02-02T13:10:16","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T18:10:16","slug":"curious-visitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Curious Visitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week while watching for defacers (the upgrade seems to have helped &#8230; for now) I&#8217;ve been keeping a file of some interesting hits and curious visitors to this blog. Some things I logged because they were just plain funny (btw, 70.170.78.221, did you ever find that &#8220;skin+texture+penis&#8221; you spent a couple days hunting for?). So anyway, I happen to be looking through the log just now and caught this from Host: 66.150.244.152: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googlealert.com\/view.php?h=&#038;s=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.rebang.com%2Findex.php%3Fp%3D542\" target=\"blank\">googlealert.com Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shades of a couple earlier posts (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=243\" target=\"blank\">Link 1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=465\" target=\"blank\">Link 2<\/a>), eh? It&#8217;s not like a search for their company name on this blog points to only that one post. A simple search gets <em>plenty<\/em> of entries. And I&#8217;ve never seen Google Alert as a referral before now, and as I&#8217;ve mentioned previously, I monitor quite closely. So what gives? Busy &#8220;monitoring your professional interests online&#8221;? Gotta &#8220;Safeguard Your Reputation&#8221;? Look, why not just put my blog on your favorites and use comments?<\/p>\n<p>The sad part is that I once sent them a confidential email with information that might have been of use to them. Next time I will undoubtedly think twice.<\/p>\n<p>For all those who are nervous about Google&#8217;s tentacles, I may not be nervous, but I do understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week while watching for defacers (the upgrade seems to have helped &#8230; for now) I&#8217;ve been keeping a file of some interesting hits and curious visitors to this blog. Some things I logged because they were just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=613\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}