# Are you seeing what I'm seeing at google? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 28, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-seeing-what-im-seeing-at-google/184975 "2003-06-28T13:56:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-seeing-what-im-seeing-at-google/184975/1 "2003-06-28T13:56:16Z")
From the front page of [http://www.google.com](http://www.google.com), I get a page with links to all kinds of porn sites, gambling sites…just about anything. (No porn images…nothing really dangerous for work, just odd) Looks like they’ve been hacked, maybe? _[sub]fixed link - **DrMatrix** [/sub]_ ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-seeing-what-im-seeing-at-google/184975/2 "2003-06-28T13:58:45Z")
I get “Page cannot be displayed”, **L**. Looks like they must have been made made aware and are working on it. Q ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-seeing-what-im-seeing-at-google/184975/3 "2003-06-28T15:23:43Z")
Google looks OK now. Strange. If you code a URL and use Automatic URL parsing, you need to put spaces before and after the URL. The comma after your link was taken as part of the link. I moved it outside the [\*\*\*\*/url] tag for you. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-seeing-what-im-seeing-at-google/184975/4 "2003-06-28T19:03:06Z")
Thanks, **Dr. Matrix**. I’ve cleared all history, cookies and everything on my computer and still see the wierd page. It also comes up on other computers here in the library (I’m at work), so I know it’s not this specific computer. Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-seeing-what-im-seeing-at-google/184975/5 "2003-06-28T19:11:03Z")
If you’re using a library’s computer, someone more than likely hacked the proxy server to either forward you to another place when you go to Google, or display a cache page that they placed in there. Best thing to do is report it to a librarian so they can tell the system administrator. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-seeing-what-im-seeing-at-google/184975/6 "2003-06-28T19:14:06Z")
Looks fine to me…? ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-seeing-what-im-seeing-at-google/184975/7 "2003-06-28T20:25:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by xgxlx \* > \*\*If you’re using a library’s computer, someone more than likely hacked the proxy server to either forward you to another place when you go to Google, or display a cache page that they placed in there. Best thing to do is report it to a librarian so they can tell the system administrator. \*\* Thanks, **xgxlx**. That’s looking like the likely answer. ---
**Author:** ![100watts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/b487fb/32.png) [@100watts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/100watts)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-seeing-what-im-seeing-at-google/184975/8 "2003-06-28T23:15:13Z")
Good luck with that on a Saturday, lsura. How bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![Alien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@Alien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alien)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-seeing-what-im-seeing-at-google/184975/9 "2003-06-29T02:01:59Z")
Google has several datacenters (servers), so it’s possible somebody hacked one, - the others would be normal. But I’m doubtful Google is hacked (no mention of it on the webmaster boards), so it’s probably a proxy or a router. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-seeing-what-im-seeing-at-google/184975/10 "2003-06-29T02:57:22Z")
the german google is working fine. I’m such a poseur… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-seeing-what-im-seeing-at-google/184975/11 "2003-06-29T03:13:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by chaoticdonkey \* > \*\*I’m such a poseur… \*\* Then you oughta fit in with the bunch here real well. Years ago I started [a thread on it.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=71208&highlight=pretentious) ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-seeing-what-im-seeing-at-google/184975/12 "2003-06-29T14:52:42Z")
Looks usual to me too, but if you search for porn that’s what it displays…Maybe someone’s been doing that?