Google search?

[RnT]

YAHOO:

1. Guns N' Roses Official Site  
No News Found. Privacy Policy. No Events Found. All Events. Upcoming Events. next week. next month. next year. last month. last year. All states/countries. Alabama. Alaska. Arizona. Arkansas. California. Colorado. Connecticut. Delaware
www.gnronline.com/ mais resultados deste site

So, just GOOGLE shows that ?

[AxlGunner]

From that Dmoz link (http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists/G/Guns_N%27_Roses/):

Official Guns N' Roses site - Includes news, tour dates and information on Chinese Democracy.

did they change it to eliminate the november 2004 part??

[LittleFly]

Clear your cache Gunner?? I dunno why some people see it and some don't.  I've been looking at all these links, and the Nov 2004 still shows for me, even after clearing my cache a few times. Comps are fucked up things lol

This whole thing has me slightly optimistic.  Although, the cynical part of me says that someone, somewhere, saw that VH1 thing and put it in a description.  Whether Google picked it up elsewhere or someone at Google put it in manually, I dunno.  

Then again, I don't know much about comps in general so who knows  

[SlashFan]

Has anyone noticed this before?

When i go to Google and type 'Guns N' Roses' in the search box, the first site it finds is the official site, www.gnronline.com

but check out what it says in the site description:

Guns N' Roses Official Site
Includes news, tour dates and information on Chinese Democracy due November 2004.

MY GOD, is this s**t official or what???  

Chinese Democracy is about to start  


 

Oh,so you're the one who started these rumors on that other message board,but hey I did the search and it does say that,maybe we'll get the album soon

[sic.]

It's fairly easy to modify your existing Dmoz listing and this is something you can basically do yourself. One of the things you can do with a simple form is to "Suggest a new description when the scope of the site has changed." Basically, it could be done by anyone willing to give a valid e-mail addy, although every submission does go through validation. I wouldn't be very much surprised either if someone representing, say, management, contacted the category editors directly. Anyway, it's gone now.

I think Google will now catch the new description within a month or so, the next time they do an update.

[0001001]

Look at this screenshot I've made:
http://8ung.at/karle34/dmoz.gif

That's how the left screenshot is made:

it can also be reached by going to:
http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=Guns+N%27+Roses

then click on 1. Arts:  Music: Bands and Artists: G: Guns N' Roses
under Open Directory Categories (1-5 of 5)

And that's how the right screenshot is made:

http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists/G/Guns_N%27_Roses/

strange.....  

[SOH]

Says November 2004 for me. This is odd in the fact that it shows up for some and not others.

[NickNasty]

The fact is, a search engine is not going to 'break' the Chinese Democracy Wall of Secrecy. Vh1 is still the best info we have. We know that managment told vh1 that November was the slated release month. We know other sites have picked up Vh1's snippet. Managament denies when asked directly, though issues no public denial in the form of a press clipping. These are the facts. Still more reason than not to think that November is the target date, doesnt mean anything'll happen, but it might.

P.S. (I get November 2004 on my search   )

[sic.]

(I get November 2004 on my search   )

It won't disappear from Google for a while. What matters is that it's gone from Dmoz. If any of you still see it there, try refreshing the site, then clear your browser's cache and page history.

The fact is, a search engine is not going to 'break' the Chinese Democracy Wall of Secrecy. Vh1 is still the best info we have.

Truest words of the whole thread.

[Layko]

Well looks like the mods and their "management" were wrong. I now know who and not to believe if they say they are friends with Geffen and have inside information and whatnot.

[Spirit]

YAHOO:

1. Guns N' Roses Official Site  
No News Found. Privacy Policy. No Events Found. All Events. Upcoming Events. next week. next month. next year. last month. last year. All states/countries. Alabama. Alaska. Arizona. Arkansas. California. Colorado. Connecticut. Delaware
www.gnronline.com/ mais resultados deste site

So, just GOOGLE shows that ?

Nah.. here's link to a Norwegian search site:
http://search.kvasir.no/query?q=Guns+N%27+Roses&what=web

But as said before, the info is taken from dmoz

[Will]

Weird, the nov. 2004 disappeared for me now, on that dmoz web site.

It just says "...on Chinese Democracy" where it says before "...on Chinese Democracy due November 2004".

From what we gathered, it seems like "someone" modified that description as soon as the word spread out...Very odd. Looks like "someone" doesn't want that date to be spread. That behind the scenes stuff is very weird!

[youngerformofaxl]

Maybe, someone told them to change it:smoking:

[anythinggoes]

Maybe, someone told them to change it:smoking:

Maybe that someone was axl maybe he has been on the board and seen this post maybe

[DemocracyRose]

Google.dk:

Guns N' Roses Official Site
Includes news, tour dates and information on Chinese Democracy due November 2004.
www.gnronline.com/ - 2k - Cached - Lignende sider

The key words.... Who wrote that information?

[Mysteron]

Google.dk:

Guns N' Roses Official Site
Includes news, tour dates and information on Chinese Democracy due November 2004.
www.gnronline.com/ - 2k - Cached - Lignende sider

The key words.... Who wrote that information?

It's nothing fantastical. The information came from the Google directory/dmoz

They have now changed their info

End of story

[DemocracyRose]

Google.dk:

Guns N' Roses Official Site
Includes news, tour dates and information on Chinese Democracy due November 2004.
www.gnronline.com/ - 2k - Cached - Lignende sider

The key words.... Who wrote that information?


Ok... But my search still saying "due November 2004"

It's nothing fantastical. The information came from the Google directory/dmoz

They have now changed their info

End of story

[loretian]

FYI, I e-mailed Google about this when we first found out about it (sorry, Mysteron, I did this before you asked us to not e-mail Google about it).

They said the description was triggered by the two sites that list GNROnline.com, who apparently got their info from Dmoz.  The google directory listing also came from this, so it was the Dmoz listing that originally triggered it, but the two pages that listed the text that actually caused Google to use the description.

Not that it matters anyway.    

[mnsotapop]

The official GnR website gnronline has been recently changed.  Although you cannot see anything new at the site, if you Google it the description is as follows: Includes news, tour dates and information on Chinese Democracy due November 2004

Also there is not a "cached" version of it on Google so I believe this means google has not scanned a new version of it.. Maybe another clue to an upcoming announcement? Or just a hoax?

[loretian]

We have a thread on this in the main forum, and it was confirmed that the description on google for the site originated from the dmoz.org listing, which could have been entered by anyone.  It definitely didn't come from the gnronline.com site.