Ever experienced this? You ask Google to look something up,
the engine returns with a number of finds. 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 or other transaction first.

The lesson you should have learned here is 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\Microsoft\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\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
@="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"

it gets me closer but not close enough

Awesome handy extentsion.

"Ever experienced this? You ask Google to look something up,
the engine returns with a number of finds. 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 or other transaction first."

I don't know how useful this exploit is because I've never encountered the situation you've described.

> "Ever experienced this? You ask Google to look something up,
> the engine returns with a number of finds. 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 or other transaction first."
>
> I don't know how useful this exploit is because I've never encountered the
> situation you've described.
>

i have, you look something up, and google comes up with the page, and the text that it shows below the link shows that it is what your looking for, but when you click the link, it asks you to login or register, very useful, but for some reason, it doesn't work, i show up as google.com on IPB boards but i cant get past the register stuff