Yahoo crushing us like a bug

Undertoad • Jul 21, 2010 3:09 pm
Well this has been interesting; for the last 2.5 hours I've been trying to figure out why Yahoo! Images Search has been repeatedly sending people to an IotD from 2005 showing the largest fish ever caught.

We're talking like over 5 requests per second for it. We're second on Yahoo for the term "largest fish ever caught", but that shouldn't drive that level of traffic. Hell we're 4th on Google Image Search for "cheerleaders", and that's just one word. Yahoo Images Search has generally generated one link per minute.

The only way I could dissuade Yahoo! from breaking the Cellar was to totally deny any web requests for *anything* from yahoo.com -- not the ideal result, obviously. I will be trying to find someone at their engineering who can suggest what might be happening...
glatt • Jul 21, 2010 3:12 pm
I was wondering why it's been so sluggish today.
Spexxvet • Jul 21, 2010 3:14 pm
So that's why I couldn't get here. I thought it was alzheimer's, and I'd forgotten the way.
monster • Jul 21, 2010 3:30 pm
Problems here also. Boo to Yahoo.
classicman • Jul 21, 2010 3:50 pm
Ya----- hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Suxors
Cloud • Jul 21, 2010 5:40 pm
I see a story today on CNN about a Missouri fisherman setting a world record by catching a 130 lb catfish. Related searches?
Lamplighter • Jul 21, 2010 6:20 pm
Access to "Cllr.me" is still forbidden... at least to me.
Cloud • Jul 21, 2010 6:27 pm
Cellar Me?
Lamplighter • Jul 21, 2010 6:40 pm
UT's little program to shorten web links (at the bottom of the page)
Undertoad • Jul 21, 2010 8:01 pm
It's fixed, see that's the problem with having all the web stuff on one box.
Lamplighter • Jul 21, 2010 8:54 pm
Thank you UT... it's a nice tool
Cloud • Jul 21, 2010 10:10 pm
Lamplighter;671846 wrote:
UT's little program to shorten web links (at the bottom of the page)


is that only for special people, 'cause I see nothing like it
classicman • Jul 21, 2010 10:17 pm
Bottom right corner -

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Cloud • Jul 21, 2010 11:40 pm
hmm, thanks. never noticed that.
Shawnee123 • Jul 22, 2010 10:32 am
I think you were really busy at work during the discussion about it here:

http://cllr.me/YKB
Undertoad • Jul 22, 2010 1:36 pm
24 hours later Yahoo! doesn't seem to be crushing us any longer. I've re-enabled access for them, let's see what happens.
Gravdigr • Jul 22, 2010 2:26 pm
Teh Cellar isn't even in the top five pages now.
xoxoxoBruce • Jul 22, 2010 2:45 pm
Yahoo is the fat lady... love us to death. :worried:
Crimson Ghost • Jul 24, 2010 3:49 am
She's a whole lotta Rosie....
richlevy • Jul 25, 2010 8:36 am
Undertoad;671789 wrote:
Hell we're 4th on Google Image Search for "cheerleaders", and that's just one word.
I'm almost afraid to ask how we got there. :headshake
toranokaze • Jul 25, 2010 3:01 pm
NSFW WTF thread
Undertoad • Jul 25, 2010 3:03 pm
We're second on Google for WTF NSFW.

I like to think it was my great shot that made the cheerleaders #4 in GIS, but everybody knows it was the :ggw:

Image
toranokaze • Jul 25, 2010 3:10 pm
For the win
Gravdigr • Jul 27, 2010 3:39 am
( . v . )
TheMercenary • Jul 27, 2010 9:16 pm
No camel toes?
Trilby • Jul 28, 2010 10:31 am
we all know who has the fake ta=tas.
jinx • Jul 28, 2010 11:32 am
And the granny panties.
toranokaze • Jul 28, 2010 2:45 pm
TheMercenary;673114 wrote:
No camel toes?


They are just camouflaged