欺骗Google如此轻易
Feedburner hacked! from Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Vimeo.
很多博客上都显示着他们的订阅者(subscribers)的数量,如果这个数字很大的话,那是非常值得引以为傲的事情,因为这代表了一个博客的忠实读者很多。但是订阅者的数量是可以作弊的,上面视频中的这两位老兄,就让博客的订阅者数量从43猛增到2597,所需时间?仅仅一夜。
他们恶搞的是Google旗下提供feed烧制服务的feedburner。怎么做到的呢?首先需要制作一个OPML文件,在这个文件中,把feed地址拷贝为一个满意的数量(比如5000?)。再需要一个个人主页帐号,这两位用的是netvibes,导入这个OPML文件,然后等待……会有很多重复的widget出现在netvibes的页面上,而feedburner会认为每个widget都是一个订阅者。
不知道这是不是feed订阅作弊的通用手法。
All It Takes To Inflate Your FeedBurner Numbers Is a Netvibes Account
(via TechCrunch) It is hardly surprising that FeedBurner’s subscriber numbers can be faked. What is surprising is how easy it is to do so. As the video above shows, all you need is a Netvibes account. The folks at the Next Web in Amsterdam took a blog with 43 subscribers and turned that into 2,500 overnight simply by creating an OPML file with the same feed copied 2,500 times and pasting it into their Netvibes page. The result was 2,500 widgets of the blog feed, which FeedBurner counts as separate subscribers. Read more.

