GoGloom?

Ankara23 · Post by **Ankara23** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:41 pm

Hey has anyone been getting a crawler bot connection from this guy at http://www.gogloom.com? we have been getting a bot on our servers from him for a coupla days now. I went to his site and it seems a little......*off* i.e. it berates you for loading pages to *fast* and other points of weirdness, anyway I was just wondering if this guys legit? (like searchirc, or netsplit.de)
Unlike searchIRC, where I modify our information, this guy just seemed to come from nowhere. I may be acting a little *reactionary* but the vibe from his page suggested that I apply a /gline at once..

Thanks for any info you may have.

Ankara

Stealth · Post by **Stealth** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:45 pm

I have been seeing this bot on the IRCsystems network, but I never thought much of it. I usually leave bots alone unless they are bugging users.

Post by **Syzop** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:56 pm

This irc-junkie article might be of interest to you:
Former search engine XGoogle reopens doors at Gogloom.com

codemastr · Post by **codemastr** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 6:31 pm

I don't trust the site personally. It's a warez site. You can tell because he tries to protect his website with the fake Internet Privacy Act text that some stupid warez guy made up. If it were my network, I'd gline it. Maybe it will get you 1-2 new users, but they are likely going to be users who just want warez, not chatting.

pepolez · Post by **pepolez** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:47 am

Personally I haven't seen that bot around (yet) but just wanted to let you know that you will occasionally get serachirc bots, which are harmless, just there to collect stats. ( wasn't sure if you requested them or they just came, wasnt my net i saw them on).

Edit:
Now I've seen a gogloom bot, not on my net yet

[1:30]--> Gogloom00 ([email protected]) has joined #support
[1:30]<-- Gogloom00 has quit (Thank you come again)

w00t · Post by **w00t** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:14 pm

They only appear if you request them pepolez.

Ankara23 · Post by **Ankara23** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:08 am

Thanks for the info, /gline applied.... After a bit of research I found out that it is indeed all about the warez...

The_deViL · Post by **The_deViL** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:36 pm

What's his IP/Hostname?

Post by **Syzop** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:39 pm

You can recognize them like this:
Gogloom00 was [email protected] * Problems? curious 4t Gogloom d0t com

So banning on nick/realname would do.
Or for the paranoid, you could just gline the whole netblock:

Code: Select all

OrgName:    Infinite Media Corp 
OrgID:      IMC-87
Address:    120 Gazza Blvd.
City:       Farmingdale
StateProv:  NE
PostalCode: 11735
Country:    US

NetRange:   69.90.158.0 - 69.90.159.255 
CIDR:       69.90.158.0/23

[information slightly editted on request {removed exact ip}]

dalok0kat · Post by **dalok0kat** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:36 pm

hi,

gogloom is not for warez, but for irc

just test irc seach engines and compare searching for irc channels, you'll see some differences, maybe not...

You cannot improvise?

http://gogloom.com/search?q=irc+help
http://searchirc.com/search.php?I=irc+help
http://irc.netsplit.de/channels/?query=irc+help

PS: i would put the test on "help" only but searchirc.com decided to close that search for the "help" keyword

see related channels? http://gogloom.com/search?channel=%23Un ... 82&order=2

Stealth · Post by **Stealth** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:06 am

/me points out the link that searches XDCC

dalok0kat · Post by **dalok0kat** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:23 am

yeah,

some people could think xdcc is not irc, but, it's obvious that xdcc is only present on irc.

when saying "gogloom is not for warez, but for irc" i wanted to say is
something more than warez hmmm, anyway ppl can only see xdcc (for good or for bad)

anyway i assume that i try to separate it in "irc search" while i'm trying to filter xdcc channels

/me points out the link that says "XDCC Filter: On"

Post by **Syzop** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:39 am

I'm lost... For some reason you gave/give the impression here and on irc-junkie that you filter warez and stuff. But now when I go to your site (tnx Stealth for pointing that out ;p), you offer an explicit XDCC search option... LOL? This is just a joke...

Ok, sure, technically you never said you were anti-warez or anything and technically these 2 things (warez filter & xdcc search) can of course coexist, but I just want to say that you just gave a totally wrong impression if you ask me....
Then again, I guess most people just visited the site and found that out -- which also explains their negative opinion.

dalok0kat · Post by **dalok0kat** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:54 am

yeah i filter xdcc and stuff for irc search cause i wanna keep it clean, irc is just irc ...

but i like the "dark side" of gogloom which is another "concept of irc"

here wanted to clarify that gogloom is IRC, then xdcc, but first of all is IRC

ppl will put XDCC in front for good or for BAD as i've expected

In every page i put IRC in front but nobody cares

you win

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