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Ever experienced this? You ask Google to look something up; the engine returns with a number of finds, but if you try to open the ones with the most promising content, you are confronted with a registration page instead, and the stuff you were looking for will not be revealed to you unless you agree to a credit card transaction first....

The lesson you should have learned here is: Obviously Google can go where you can't.

Can we solve this problem? Yes, we can. We merely have to convince the site we want to enter, that WE ARE GOOGLE.

In fact, many sites that force users to register or even pay in order to search and use their content, leave a backdoor open for the Googlebot, because a prominent presence in Google searches is known to generate sales leads, site hits and exposure.

Examples of such sites are Windows Magazine, .Net Magazine, Nature, and many, many newspapers around the globe.

How then, can you disguise yourself as a Googlebot? Quite simple: by changing your browser's User Agent. Copy the following code segment and paste it into a fresh notepad file. Save it as Useragent.reg and merge it into your registry.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mcft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]

@="Googlebot/2.1"

"Compatible"="+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html"

Voila! You're done!

You may always change it back again.... I know only one site that uses you User Agent to establish your eligability to use its services, and that's the Windows Update site...

To restore the IE6 User Agent, save the following code to NormalAgent.reg and merge with your registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mcft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]

@="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"

Ps:

Opera allows for on-the-fly switching of User Agents through its "Browser Identification" function, while for Mozilla/FireFox browsers a switching utility is available as an installable extension from this url:

http://chrispederick.myacen.com/work/firefox/useragentswitcher/download/

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mostly forums and stuff like this one

i dunno many sites that let you do this cuz its not really worth looking around for, just know that its possible and use it in the future

wow, great finD!!
old and gay

after messing with this im inclined to agree, very very gay and usless, give us an example saying otherwise.

so many posts yet ive never seen you before?

he's an oldie k

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this forum is an example. you'd have to log out first. ive seen googlebot in the recent users thing before.

 

i cant get it to work. guess i should try out things before stealing tutorials from other sites

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