Google image search weirdness "You are here: Google Random Image"

Factual Questions
1

I went for a walk on the beach out the back of my workplace this lunchtime and again, picked up a few fossils, one of them was a sponge which initial searches narrowed down to Ventriculites. When I do a Google image search on Ventriculites, I get a page of relevant results, then a dozen pages of images that are entirely irrelevant. They’re all titled beginning “You are here: Google Random Image …”

I’ve never seen this before - what’s going on?

2

heh. I repeated your search and I am getting the same results. Never seen/heard of this before today!

3

It looks like all the hits are for some site called ghettodriveby.com - they must have done some kind of google-bomb thing to make their results seem relevant.

4

From McAfee SiteAdvisor:

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/ghettodriveby.com/

5

Someone has asked Google about this:
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Helpers/browse_thread/thread/dce888dcb8c64636/8ac3433c3cdde5d1#8ac3433c3cdde5d1

Interesting.

6

Page source (with page breaks that I added) for the first “You are here” image (the guy who looks like creature from the lagoon):

Google’s just doing what you asked it to (I didn’t check the others but I suspect the word is in their page sources as well). As to why the heck the page source has “ventriculites” within it in the first place? ::shrug::

7

Thanks for that, it looks like a project to randomly link images with irrelevant search terms - looks like I’ll just have to start adding -site:ghettodriveby.com to my Google Image searches.

8

Or add it to your Hosts file and alias it to localhost :slight_smile:

9

That wont really help. google will still list the results. You just wont be able to view the pages linked from google.

10

:smack: D’oh!