Ex-girlfriend exacts revenge through Google Images

http://www.seroundtable.com/boyfriend-spammed-12909.html

by luigi • 15 years ago

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maeon3• 15 years ago

Sane, Pretty, Smart. So hard to find all three in a woman these days. People who do crap like this have to be handled with care, engage them and it can lead to murder.

Gavin De Becker spent his entire career (30 years ) dealing with this kind of thing, protecting clients/celebrities from all kinds of psychos. "The Gift of Fear". https://www.gavindebecker.com/resources/books_by_gavin_de_be...

luigi• 15 years ago

Sane, Handsome, Smart. So hard to find all three in a man these days.

yef• 15 years ago

I've met lots of sane, pretty and smart women. I wouldn't let a few exceptions tilt my perspective.

ebiester• 15 years ago

Sane, pretty, and smart... and single.

It's a human being thing. And amazingly enough, those who are sane, pretty, and smart have a tendency to date each other. :)

true_religion2• 15 years ago

Considering that she's a teenage minor I think this is a pretty good level of sanity for her.

I'd consider her cleverness at googlebombing her ex to be a +1.

Jun83• 15 years ago

I am flabbergasted by the tech savvy of the ex-girlfriend (of course) but also of the mom who immediately knew to contact webmasters to have the image removed from their servers and also to hit it from the copyright angle, too (a law professor perhaps?). However, I don't quite get it when she declares "My minor son's ex-girlfriend took a copyrighted picture of him (we own copyright)", the article mentions it was a professionally taken photo, so the photographer (or studio) owns the copyright in this case.

"Hell hat no fury" is very old, but the girl's revenge is so cool!

qjz• 15 years ago

Rights of ownership can be transferred to anyone, even girls.

Jun83• 15 years ago

I've never seen professional studios transfer copyright to people. That's why none of the photo services in Walmart, Walgreens, etc. will make a copy of a photo that was taken professionally.

elvirs• 15 years ago

with all the publicity he will get more girls now :)

vlaube• 15 years ago

The article makes it sound like she is some kind of genius but using http://www.memegenerator.net/ is not rocked science. Pretty clever though.

kgtm• 15 years ago

It could have been a better read. It doesn't actually tell if the girl in question used SEO/blackhat techniques to rank his name. My feeling is that it was not an act of gaming the image SERPs, it was merely a byproduct of MemeGenerator's SEO optimization.

klbarry• 15 years ago

She just used the Meme's sites optimization, but she named her pictures correctly and etc.

tyng• 15 years ago

I'd be pretty touched if my gf does something like this for me - only if they were all good messages.

mahmud2• 15 years ago

A more useful lesson to us is: use http status codes appropriately.

The site took down the photos, but they keep returning 200 for the links, and saying "image gone" in content. That's not how it's supposed to be.

Please check to see your web-framework and CRM actually respect HTTP, in spec text and spirit.

zachbeane2• 15 years ago

Maybe they use Arc, e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/nosuchfile

pg• 15 years ago

It's not Arc that does that, it's the http server written in it. As you already knew.

jgilliam• 15 years ago

The mom actually responded to this completely wrong as it's now become an internet meme. She should have flooded the web with other pictures of him to drown out the embarrassing ones.

redfloatplane• 15 years ago

This is almost entirely off-topic, but wow, I'm stunned by the massive amounts of (what looks to be) misogyny going on there. Now, I may be skewed by the fact that if my girlfriend had done that, I would have married her on the spot (don't worry ladies, I'm joking), but virtually every comment, and the article itself, call her a crazy bitch and the like. What if the guy in question had broken up with her after, say, getting her pregnant? Surely that'd be a deserved punishment.

Furthermore, there are how many porn websites regarding, basically evangelising "revenge" on ex-girlfriends?

Anyway, that's enough of a "Someone is WRONG on the internet" speech on an unrelated article. Kudos to the girl for doing that, I guess. I certainly wouldn't have thought of it.

lwhi• 15 years ago

The guy featured in this photo looks suspiciously like the actor used in this Motorola Super Bowl advert preview[1].

Just a coincidence, or part of a viral campaign?

[1] http://www.edibleapple.com/motorola-teases-super-bowl-xoom-a...

Ex-girlfriend exacts revenge through Google Images

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