Hey, Google

 Posted to make feedback more illustrative.  Left without explanation as a gesture of respect, since, Google, I still love you.

What gives?

Another Conversation With A Crow, From Inside My Apartment, Through A Closed Window, Shades Drawn.

"Drinky Crow Flying Around" by Ben Lepley, over at Flickr. 

 Mon Jul 11 07:34:55 PDT 2022 

Just had a pretty long conversation with a crow,  about 5 or 7 minutes ago.  

A month ago a neighborhood crow was going about his or her duties, checking on things, spreading news, & I interjected a 'caw' to let them know I was still around, and awake.  He finished up wth the remote crow with whom he had been in conversation, and turned attention to me.  We talked for a good half-minute; he spoke in 3 or 4 caw bursts, whch I dd my best to imitate.  

I figured this was because of that.  

This time the crow stopped in the parking structure opposite, exactly at the level of my storey it sounded like, and aimed hs voice directly at my window.  Not very loud, but direct  The conversation went something like this: Caw. Caw. Caw Caw. Caw Caw Caw Caw Caw Caw.  Caw Caw Caw Caw Caw Caw Caw Caw caw caw.  All the statements were one caw long, one call & my response.  The next caw came a little bit sooner than i expected every time, so the series sped up quite a bit. Then, abruptly, he left.

Then, just a moment ago, what sounded like the same bird came back, this time with only one caw, then left when i answered.  

I know the birds showed off my friend, who started talking to crows because of me & now is way more fluent with them, to El Gran Señor Crow; he came by her van and she was presented to him with much pomp and circumstance.  He was at least one & a half times as big as all the others, and checked her out for some time.

So maybe the one last caw that came after some time was my voice being elicited as proof to the crows silent friend that I really did exist — that behind that window, his caws were being answered, and it was no coincidence.

secret request lusts

 

Googlefd resolves to -- Bing? SHENANIGANS.

UPDATE: a zipped file of the offending page!  available for download here.

WTF is this "googlefd" domain that is suggesting I try some searches instead that are the same exact search that I just did, but on Bing?  Is this a Bing thing? If so, is dirty pool, so I think not.  Inspired by an intrepid Redditor, I took screenshots & decided to trace it -- both with tracert & cURL.

The phenomenon:

When I mouse over it it resolves to a rather shady sounding "googlefd.com."  To quantify how shady, I did some searching — had to use a different browser though, after getting suspiciously sparse results. 

The Whois to the right was certainly shady.  I wish Jsunpack were still around --- maybe there is something else like it?

Apparently not much.  Ipqualityscore.com reaffirmed my suspicions, based on supposed pattern matching to other suspicious websites.

All these are suspicious if you ask me.

Whoxy on googlefd. 

Click to enlarge, 

should open in new tab.

Back from using cURL.  Interestingly, it resolves to Google, not Bing -- or not, since it app

I got a 'That's all we know" Google error.  Sure I did... Wait, no.  That's not what it was doing in the middle -- how'd we get bback to Google?

Besides, the source says it is the "That's all we know " with the picture of the robot -- and there are no images on. the actual error message I got.

As you can see, there were supposed
 to be images on the page below.

So what I did was, I archived it using Archive.is, which gives a running list of all the GETs it has to get and all the POSTs it has to post.  For a while I was saving the list in my clipboard but I lost it.  Nor did I get any screenshots but one at the beginning, when it was still empty.  The screen below swelled to five pages or so.

I did, however, save the HTML of that page about eight times.  So I could have a look.  And Archive.IS is nice enough to both render the page and provide a screenshot.  So we can see that Bing logo perfectly rendered on the latter, missing on the former, where the people requesting obviously didn't have permission.  You can go there to look at that.

I will leave you with the image of that loading page, which I reconstructed from my saved html.  Maybe this will help someone who has an idea of what sort of shenanigans to which these guys from the UK are up.

Be seeing you.