recently G. Fraizer, one of Blizzard (www.blizzard.com) Entertainment’s employees (or maybe even former employees), decided to disallow people with IP addresses from Europe to access his personal website www.expectnothing.com
However, when you type in “expectnothing” and “Fraizer” on google, it will yield search results from the site with the typical 2 line choice quote. Now, since google’s server probably isn’t in Europe, this doesn’t come as much of a surprise. Still, there are other websites, which are impossible to access without a username and password and still google reveals results with quotations.
Now, my questions are: How is this possible? Is there any way for me to repeat that effect (Before you ask: Yes, I am nosey)?
Part of it is sites where articles expire. Google will pick it up when it’s new and free and create it’s abstract and a link, but when you try to follow that link at a later time, it prompts you for a username and password, because now you’re accessing the archives. I see this with results that link to Variety regularly.
Another possibility is when sites have partnership agreements. For instance, they will show you the article only if you’re coming from a link on a particular site (by checking the referer). Google follows the links properly and so can access the article. But when you just click on the link directly, it disallows you access.
I get it with google sometimes where i see something in the description i like so i click on it
When I get to the page I do a find for it and its not there
Same item at work here I guess
Sometimes I think they intentionally let Google search their site to encourage people to buy the subscription to read whatever article they’re searching for. Of course Google Cached is sometimes a way around that.