Now this is funny. Like most narcissistic bloggers, I have a Google Alert for my own name (everybody does that, right???). I haven’t been able to get a hit from my BlogSpot blog for months. But I move my old Google Pages crap here and look what happens…
I think I’ll pass on that Google Site.
This morning I thought I’d fire up the Google Hack and search for some new proxies.
It had occured to me that I had never done a query on “inurl:proxy.txt”, so I gave it a shot.
Every single result came back with a “This site may harm your computer” warning!
That wouldn’t be unusual for proxy sites and since this was the first time I had ever used this query, I thought I had stumbled across a gold mine.
It turns out, Google was simply fucked and this was happening to everyone, everywhere. Even Page Creator, where I jot these notes down, was huffed.
It lasted for about 15 minutes, max.
In that time, I figured out how to filter out the malware site warnings. I also found a proxy.txt file with thousands of proxies in it.
Nice.
Hinky's Proxy Project Notes 