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Odd trackbacks (2 posts)

  1. SteveAtty
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    I'm getting some very odd trackbacks - the trackback is to a googlesearch url with a random character search string.

    Is anyone else seeing these?

  2. tdjcbe
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    Not with the random string. One of the bots ships with a default of google.com and we see that on occasion. Always assumed that the operator forgot to set it or was doing a test run.

    It's hardcoded to be an automatic fail on our antispam system as google isn't going to be sending trackbacks from the google.com domain. (All the blogs I know of are on blogspot.com and we've seen this before.)

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