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Ex-girlfriend exacts revenge through Google Images

93 points by luigi 16y ago

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- MortenK 16y ago
  They didn't want to name him in order to avoid having their site show up, when people searched for the guy (thus adding insult to injury). From that standpoint, the image including the name is irrelevant as it doesn't weigh in on search result rating.
maeon3 16y 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_becker_and_other_books/ https://www.gavindebecker.com/resources/books_by_gavin_de_be...
- true_religion 16y 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.
- luigi 16y ago
  Sane, Handsome, Smart. So hard to find all three in a man these days.
- yef 16y ago
  I've met lots of sane, pretty and smart women. I wouldn't let a few exceptions tilt my perspective.
- ebiester 16y 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. :)
Jun8 16y 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 16y ago
  Rights of ownership can be transferred to anyone, even girls.
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  - Jun8 16y 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.
    - true_religion 16y ago
      She might have a right to noncommercial distribution. It's not uncommon to give that for childrens' photographs and "glamor shots" that you get at the mall. This way people can make copies for their own private use, without worrying about breaking the law and the photographer will still get paid if say the boys photo ends up on the nightly news.
      - Jun8 16y ago
        Exactly; in fact that's how all the studio shots I had before worked. That does not mean that you have the copyright, though, the photographer/studio can still use the photo in ways they see fit and sell it.
elvirs 16y ago
with all the publicity he will get more girls now :)
vlaube 16y ago
The article makes it sound like she is some kind of genius but using http://www.memegenerator.net/ http://www.memegenerator.net/ is not rocked science. Pretty clever though.
kgtm 16y 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 16y ago
  She just used the Meme's sites optimization, but she named her pictures correctly and etc.
tyng 16y ago
I'd be pretty touched if my gf does something like this for me - only if they were all good messages.
mahmud 16y 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.
- zachbeane 16y ago
  Maybe they use Arc, e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/nosuchfile http://news.ycombinator.com/nosuchfile
  - pg 16y ago
    It's not Arc that does that, it's the http server written in it. As you already knew.
    - zachbeane 16y ago
      Why wasn't it called "The http server written in Arc challenge" at http://www.paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html http://www.paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html?
      - mahmud 16y ago
        It's common, though not acceptable, to conflate language with supporting tools/libraries, sometimes even the OS? It's very hard to draw the distinction when the language is not standardized, and/or heavily used (as language implementors are also its consumers.) It should be a good exercise to take the public StackOverflow data and see how many "Rails" problems are actually Ruby, httpd, db, OS, or wetware problems.
jgilliam 16y 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.
hebejebelus 16y 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.
- c0nsilience 16y ago
  "Kudos to the girl for doing that, I guess." You say that after lambasting the others for making assumptions? You give props to the girl based on your own assumptions? Hahaha.
lwhi 16y 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-ad-paints-apple-users-as-drones/ http://www.edibleapple.com/motorola-teases-super-bowl-xoom-a...

93 points by luigi 16y ago

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MortenK 16y ago
They didn't want to name him in order to avoid having their site show up, when people searched for the guy (thus adding insult to injury). From that standpoint, the image including the name is irrelevant as it doesn't weigh in on search result rating.

maeon3 16y 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_becker_and_other_books/ https://www.gavindebecker.com/resources/books_by_gavin_de_be...

true_religion 16y 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.
luigi 16y ago
Sane, Handsome, Smart. So hard to find all three in a man these days.
yef 16y ago
I've met lots of sane, pretty and smart women. I wouldn't let a few exceptions tilt my perspective.
ebiester 16y 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. :)

Jun8 16y 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 16y ago
Rights of ownership can be transferred to anyone, even girls.
- deleted 16y ago
  [deleted]
- Jun8 16y 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.
  - true_religion 16y ago
    She might have a right to noncommercial distribution. It's not uncommon to give that for childrens' photographs and "glamor shots" that you get at the mall. This way people can make copies for their own private use, without worrying about breaking the law and the photographer will still get paid if say the boys photo ends up on the nightly news.
    - Jun8 16y ago
      Exactly; in fact that's how all the studio shots I had before worked. That does not mean that you have the copyright, though, the photographer/studio can still use the photo in ways they see fit and sell it.

elvirs 16y ago

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

vlaube 16y ago

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

kgtm 16y 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 16y ago
She just used the Meme's sites optimization, but she named her pictures correctly and etc.

tyng 16y ago

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

mahmud 16y 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.

zachbeane 16y ago
Maybe they use Arc, e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/nosuchfile http://news.ycombinator.com/nosuchfile
- pg 16y ago
  It's not Arc that does that, it's the http server written in it. As you already knew.
  - zachbeane 16y ago
    Why wasn't it called "The http server written in Arc challenge" at http://www.paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html http://www.paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html?
    - mahmud 16y ago
      It's common, though not acceptable, to conflate language with supporting tools/libraries, sometimes even the OS? It's very hard to draw the distinction when the language is not standardized, and/or heavily used (as language implementors are also its consumers.) It should be a good exercise to take the public StackOverflow data and see how many "Rails" problems are actually Ruby, httpd, db, OS, or wetware problems.

jgilliam 16y 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.

hebejebelus 16y 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.

c0nsilience 16y ago
"Kudos to the girl for doing that, I guess." You say that after lambasting the others for making assumptions? You give props to the girl based on your own assumptions? Hahaha.

lwhi 16y 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-ad-paints-apple-users-as-drones/ http://www.edibleapple.com/motorola-teases-super-bowl-xoom-a...