Click here to Skip to main content
15,892,161 members

Welcome to the Lounge

   

For discussing anything related to a software developer's life but is not for programming questions. Got a programming question?

The Lounge is rated Safe For Work. If you're about to post something inappropriate for a shared office environment, then don't post it. No ads, no abuse, and no programming questions. Trolling, (political, climate, religious or whatever) will result in your account being removed.

 
GeneralRe: MQOTD Pin
Daniel Pfeffer14-Nov-16 0:04
professionalDaniel Pfeffer14-Nov-16 0:04 
GeneralRe: MQOTD Pin
Corporal Agarn14-Nov-16 2:17
professionalCorporal Agarn14-Nov-16 2:17 
GeneralNew Zealand earthquakes Pin
OriginalGriff13-Nov-16 20:13
mveOriginalGriff13-Nov-16 20:13 
GeneralRe: New Zealand earthquakes Pin
User 5924113-Nov-16 20:24
User 5924113-Nov-16 20:24 
GeneralRe: New Zealand earthquakes Pin
RossMW13-Nov-16 21:10
professionalRossMW13-Nov-16 21:10 
GeneralRe: New Zealand earthquakes Pin
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter13-Nov-16 21:29
professionalKornfeld Eliyahu Peter13-Nov-16 21:29 
GeneralRe: New Zealand earthquakes Pin
den2k8813-Nov-16 21:30
professionalden2k8813-Nov-16 21:30 
GeneralBing Webmaster tools are as dumb as the search engine's name Pin
Chris Maunder13-Nov-16 13:57
cofounderChris Maunder13-Nov-16 13:57 
OK, so maybe I'm feeling a little bitter tonight about - well, lots of things really - but I get these emails from Bing Webmaster tools saying "Malware has been found on your site".

Like any paranoid site admin I jump onto it because I'm assuming malware == you cease to exist on our index. Thanks for playing.

So I click the link. It sends me to a page that's in 8pt font that says it's redirecting, then the message centre which says "Malware detected on codeproject.com". So I click the link and I get the news

"Bing Webmaster Tools detected 26 pages infected with malware"

So I click on the "more info" link it says

No malware was found on CodeProject.com

D'Oh! | :doh:

Site admins seriously need danger money for the stress search engines place on us. Make sure you add this tag. And this meta data. But not in this format, in the other. Now do this. Now stop doing that. Actually you should have stopped doing that 6 months ago because it's BAD. But no, we're not actually going to tell you because then you could game the system. And BTW, you're off our search index because one of your tags is improperly closed*. Now make sure your authors ref their Google+ profile or you'll be downgraded. Except we just cancelled that feature. And make sure your CSS is in a stylesheet and cached. Except it can't be external it must be totally inlined for mobile.

ARGGHH.

So anyway, it's no wonder my alcohol bill is steadily creeping up with each iteration of search engine algorithms. Anyone else have some fun stories to share?

*yes, this actually happened to us. 6 weeks of hell.
cheers
Chris Maunder

JokeRe: Bing Webmaster tools are as dumb as the search engine's name Pin
Peter_in_278013-Nov-16 14:04
professionalPeter_in_278013-Nov-16 14:04 
GeneralRe: Bing Webmaster tools are as dumb as the search engine's name Pin
Ron Anders13-Nov-16 14:50
Ron Anders13-Nov-16 14:50 
GeneralRe: Bing Webmaster tools are as dumb as the search engine's name Pin
Member 1168325113-Nov-16 19:52
Member 1168325113-Nov-16 19:52 
GeneralRe: Bing Webmaster tools are as dumb as the search engine's name Pin
Dan Neely14-Nov-16 4:04
Dan Neely14-Nov-16 4:04 
GeneralRe: Bing Webmaster tools are as dumb as the search engine's name Pin
Member 1168325114-Nov-16 19:44
Member 1168325114-Nov-16 19:44 
GeneralBurp! Pin
CDP180213-Nov-16 7:53
CDP180213-Nov-16 7:53 
GeneralRe: Burp! Pin
OriginalGriff13-Nov-16 8:08
mveOriginalGriff13-Nov-16 8:08 
GeneralRe: Burp! Pin
CDP180213-Nov-16 8:17
CDP180213-Nov-16 8:17 
GeneralRe: Burp! Pin
OriginalGriff13-Nov-16 8:24
mveOriginalGriff13-Nov-16 8:24 
GeneralRe: Burp! Pin
CDP180213-Nov-16 8:32
CDP180213-Nov-16 8:32 
GeneralRe: Burp! Pin
OriginalGriff13-Nov-16 8:55
mveOriginalGriff13-Nov-16 8:55 
GeneralRe: Burp! Pin
CDP180213-Nov-16 8:58
CDP180213-Nov-16 8:58 
GeneralRe: Burp! Pin
OriginalGriff13-Nov-16 9:11
mveOriginalGriff13-Nov-16 9:11 
GeneralRe: Burp! Pin
CDP180213-Nov-16 9:18
CDP180213-Nov-16 9:18 
GeneralRe: Burp! Pin
den2k8813-Nov-16 21:40
professionalden2k8813-Nov-16 21:40 
GeneralRe: Burp! Pin
Jörgen Andersson13-Nov-16 8:36
professionalJörgen Andersson13-Nov-16 8:36 
GeneralRe: Burp! Pin
OriginalGriff13-Nov-16 8:59
mveOriginalGriff13-Nov-16 8:59 

General General    News News    Suggestion Suggestion    Question Question    Bug Bug    Answer Answer    Joke Joke    Praise Praise    Rant Rant    Admin Admin   

Use Ctrl+Left/Right to switch messages, Ctrl+Up/Down to switch threads, Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to switch pages.