Comments on: Google, Google, Go away

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Actually it does work – I'm not using that script on THIS site.

I should note that there are A LOT of scripts posted on this site. VERY FEW of them are actually being used here. Mostly I'm just sharing information/scripts for other people

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If there a way you could post that script in a way that I could paste it into my LiveJournal's code (on the S2 system)? Thanks.

By: disappointed

disappointed — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I found and came to this site from Google. Script does not work.
I don't have any program/firewall/whatever that would prevent sending the referrer (tested it on another site).

By: i1277

i1277 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Some nice links on your frontpage there!

Oh, by the way, I found this entry through a google search on "hide from google"…

By: i1277

i1277 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh, you were probably speaking about another blog. Anyway, still nice links.

By: the country girl

the country girl — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I was just curious if you could tack this code at the bottom of your cookiecheck.php if you have your blog skinned???

By: susan

susan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I can't seem to get the code with the IP addresses working.. it keeps telling me I have a parse error…

By: manuel

manuel — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

hi, i've tried entering in any of the codes onto my blogspot.com page, and if when i use the last one listed on this page, it has zero effect; when i use the first one listed on this page, it prints the "error" message and my blog, no matter if i enter the address directly, or if found via a search engine.

right now, i have the "redirect to http://www.google.com" code on my page.

all help is appreciated… thanks, *M

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I'm reasonably certain that if you're hosting your site on blogspot – they don't let you run server side scripts like PHP (which is what you need to do with this script)… May I recommend getting your own hosting account with Blogomania?

By: titilayo

titilayo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I've been using this code and it's been working fine, but I've been wondering how I could get it to be even more foolproof. In doing a search to find out how the code Kim posted above would work, I came up with this solution.

In the code Jennifer posted, replace:

print('File Not Found

File Not Found

The requested URL was not found on this server.

with

header("Location: http://www.google.com/")

so your whole code snippet will look something like:

function isBadReferrer($ref)
{
if (
(strstr($ref, "google.")) or
(strstr($ref, "aolsearch.aol.com")) or
(strstr($ref, "search.yahoo.com")) or
(strstr($ref, "search.msn.com")) or
(strstr($ref, "hotbot.com"))
//add more like the above line to add more "rejected" referrals
)
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}

$ref = getenv("HTTP_REFERER");
if (($ref) and (isBadReferrer($ref) )) {
header("Location: http://www.google.com/");

exit;
}
?>

This code wil re-direct anyone who comes to your page via google or any of the other listed search engines to the site you specify in the header tags (in this case I've made it http://www.google.com, but it can be anywhere you want). It works a charm — anyone who comes to my site via the "blocked" search engines is redirected back to the google home page.