# Senegoid broke Google. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 5, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senegoid-broke-google/660235 "2013-06-05T19:46:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senegoid-broke-google/660235/1 "2013-06-05T19:46:40Z")
For some reason, whenever I do a Google search-- SDMB xxxx, on of the links always comes up [senegoid.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthreadxxxx](http://senegoid.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthreadxxxx) Weird. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senegoid-broke-google/660235/2 "2013-06-05T19:49:27Z")
I am getting that too. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senegoid-broke-google/660235/3 "2013-06-05T20:11:10Z")
Yes! All your posts now are belong to meeeeeeeee!!! Bwahahahahahaha! See this ATMB thread from 5/3/2013: > **[Alternate URL's for The Dope?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=689921)** > > Googling for various things on The Dope, I sometimes find threads under: \[noparse\]http://\[/noparse\]board.\[noparse\]straightdope.com/sdmb/{wherever} and: http://\[/noparse\]boardstest.\[noparse\]straightdope.com/sdmb/{wherever} as well as the usual... Note especially Post #2 by **Lord Feldon** and the link he put there, and **Anonymous User** ’s Post #5. Then see this ATMB thread of 5/29/2013: > **[ards.straightdope.com and board.straightdope.com ???](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=692312)** > > I did some google searching for some old threads and I got these odd URLs. I only noticed because I wasn’t logged in on these versions of the site. Are they legit? Is it safe to log in on these “other” SDMBs? There appears to be a few other... See especially my analysis at Post #6. But note also that **TubaDiva** at Post #7 doesn’t believe it. ---
**Author:** ![Mathematics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@Mathematics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mathematics)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senegoid-broke-google/660235/4 "2013-06-05T20:14:53Z")
Wow, I am jealous. I wish everyone got [mathematics.straightdope.com](http://mathematics.straightdope.com) results instead. Nonetheless, I still get [boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com) when I search. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senegoid-broke-google/660235/5 "2013-06-05T20:42:52Z")
I just did an experiment, in which I discovered something about this. I’m going to post it in this thread: [ards.straightdope.com and board.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=692312) where I think it’s most relevant, as may answer **TubaDiva** ’s remark at Post #7. Watch for it Real Soon Now, probably at Post #8, as soon as I can collect some sample links for evidence and illustration . . . ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senegoid-broke-google/660235/6 "2013-06-05T23:45:37Z")
All **Marley** did was ban everybody. 🙂 **Senegold** took complete control of the Dope! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senegoid-broke-google/660235/7 "2013-06-05T23:56:17Z")
Cecil should redo the Secrest society column. ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senegoid-broke-google/660235/8 "2013-06-06T06:57:17Z")
I was always partial to [fartypants.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=660277) This mystery was explained last July by **spinky** (a font of information about all things webby and/or farty) ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senegoid-broke-google/660235/9 "2013-06-06T07:18:56Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Yes! All your posts now are belong to meeeeeeeee!!! > Bwahahahahahaha! Of course, this means that anything that goes wrong on the SDMB is now YOUR FAULT. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senegoid-broke-google/660235/10 "2013-06-07T22:44:17Z")
That’s the variation I was talking about! I just wasn’t 100% sure of the name and didn’t want to accuse anyone. WTF is going on there? I’d just assumed it was one thread that **Senegoid** linked to a lot, and no one else had, so it showed up with his name. Sure, Google’s spiders may have followed a senegoid link once and gotten trapped, but it should also note that there are very few outside hits. ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senegoid-broke-google/660235/11 "2013-06-08T18:26:53Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > I was always partial to [fartypants.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=660277) > > This mystery was explained last July by **spinky** (a font of information about all things webby and/or farty) ::tip o’ the hat:: Opportunities to combine my areas of expertise are rare. **Admins:** you can fix this problem if you want. The problem is there are an infinite number of URLs that lead to any thread page. All you have to do is include a single [HTML tag](http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html) in the page that helps Google decide what the proper URL for that page is, and they’ll remove all those bogus ones from the search results eventually. The tag would look like this in this thread: ```auto ``` That would be in the page even if someone loads the page by using a url like [http://fartypants.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=692994](http://fartypants.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=692994) , so Google will know it’s already indexed that page.