Using Google To Identify a Site’s Owner
Who would’ve thought that Google AdSense could be used to track down the owner of a website?
Anonymous and spam blogs are quite numerous these days. And one would wonder who actually own these. If the sites have Google AdSense, then it’s easy! It’s as easy as viewing the page source on the site, and looking for an AdSense publisher ID.
When you use your browser’s view-source feature, just use the Find command (usually invoked with Ctrl-F) to look for that line of code, which comes with the string “google_ad_client”.
Let’s try it. For instance, we go to www.enadget.com and view the page source. I look for the keyword “client” within the source, and we get the line:
google_ad_client = “ca-aol_weblogs_xml”;
It’s easy to identify, since the site belongs to a large publisher. But if a site is independent, the publisher ID would usually be numeric. What’s important is that once you have this snippet of code, you can do another Google search to look for other sites that the numeric code would appear in, to see which other sites or blogs contain the same publisher ID.
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How much are you willing to bet that Google is going to change this at the risk of getting sued for privacy-infringement?
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Uhh
They don’t come up with any results, as google (like almost all search engines) don’t really index code, so anything within won’t show up
As Ash says, a search for something like “pub-1211610758833666″ will not show you a site that uses that as it’s Google adsense number.
Well, unless the person was willing to put it in a visible location on a website. Give it a week or two and searches for that number will locate this site and nothing else.
I have a question that isn’t totally related but hope someone can advise. I’m a reporter investigating a story. A couple days ago I found several Google videos all with a stated producer/distributor. Unfortunately I did not save the search and yesterday the same search did not show the videos…they were gone. The videos were very questionable and linked to a hate group.
Is there any way for me to find those in my cache? Or to access them again in any way?
Obviously they were deleted. The remaining videos are benign in nature.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
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