Question

Google keeps inputing crap into my forms and searching and ending up with 0 result pages and is indexing them.
Google has been searching stuff like this

0 0 41 1 0 0 9 1 0„3�¨7 0 0 0„3�ì7;7 0 6 0 674 0 0 70 555

I have no clue why google would search for that. I have read online that google will input random crap and words it finds on pages into forms but Google is indexing this crap and I want it to stop.

Google has searched for random crap like this thousands of time for a few months now. I hoped it would stop but it hasn’t. Most of the searches start with the number 0.

So what I would like to do is make it so if any search is done with a 0 for the start of the query, send it to a 404.

I need something like this I am guessing.

Example code:

if($_GET[“query”] == “/Regular expression here/”)
header(“Location: 404 page”);

Does anyone know how I can match any query starting with the number 0 and then send it to a 404?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Don’t use a regex for this…

You could do…

if (substr(trim($_GET["query"]), 0, 1) == '0') {
   // Send 404.
}