On Wed, Nov 01, 2000, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:46:57PM -0500, Hugo Haas wrote:
> > As a follow-up on this, GeekPress had an interesting story[1]
> > about how to cheat with Google's ranking linke from Slashdot.
>
> I would love to see search engines start putting sites
> like this on permanent blacklists, and then publicizing and
> sharing their blacklists with other search engine vendors.
> (a la RBL for email spam, http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/ )
>
> It would probably take a fair bit of human effort to research
> and verify which sites are doing this though.
>
> > We should publish something about the W3C Google scam. :-)
>
> That's not a scam, just a nice side effect of the way their
> ranking algorithm works. :)
>
> >   1. http://www.geekpress.com/stories/google.shtml
>
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