We must hurry to save the whale penis!

Troubleshooter · 01-21-2005, 10:25 AM

Google aims to outsmart search tricksters
Published: January 18, 2005, 4:08 PM PST
By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

http://news.com.com/Google+aims+to+o...40.html?tag=nl

update Google will introduce new technology controls to thwart people using blogs to manipulate rankings in its search results.

Otherwise known as "link" or "comment spam," the ruse is as old as Web marketing. Such Web site promoters use the comment form on forums, blogs or any Web page to place or gain a link pointing back to their own Web site. And because Google and other search engines tabulate search results in part by a Web page's link popularity with other sites, the trick can boost a site's ranking--and more importantly, traffic. It can also produce irrelevant search results.

elSicomoro · 01-21-2005, 01:57 PM

We don't do that at the Bosque...we just want everyone to link to us, plus we keep running "whale penis" into the ground.

Elspode · 01-21-2005, 04:02 PM

...leaving a large, cylindrical hole in the dirt afterwards?

wolf · 01-21-2005, 10:27 PM

Almost as though God's own post-hole digger came and took the dirt in rapture.

Griff · 01-22-2005, 07:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf

Almost as though God's own post-hole digger came and took the dirt in rapture.

Is that what happened to everything under Scranton? I've been wondering about that.

01-21-2005, 10:25 AM	#1
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	We must hurry to save the whale penis! Google aims to outsmart search tricksters Published: January 18, 2005, 4:08 PM PST By Stefanie Olsen Staff Writer, CNET News.com http://news.com.com/Google+aims+to+o...40.html?tag=nl update Google will introduce new technology controls to thwart people using blogs to manipulate rankings in its search results. Otherwise known as "link" or "comment spam," the ruse is as old as Web marketing. Such Web site promoters use the comment form on forums, blogs or any Web page to place or gain a link pointing back to their own Web site. And because Google and other search engines tabulate search results in part by a Web page's link popularity with other sites, the trick can boost a site's ranking--and more importantly, traffic. It can also produce irrelevant search results. __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

01-21-2005, 04:02 PM	#3
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	...leaving a large, cylindrical hole in the dirt afterwards? __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

01-21-2005, 10:27 PM	#4
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Almost as though God's own post-hole digger came and took the dirt in rapture. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

01-21-2005, 01:57 PM	#2
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	We don't do that at the Bosque...we just want everyone to link to us, plus we keep running "whale penis" into the ground.

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