On Thu, Jan 25, 2001, Joseph M. Reagle Jr. wrote:
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http://www.hugedisk.com/story.asp?ar_id=57
The article says:
How did we contribute to so dubious an achievement? It was easy! On
the first installment of our Ask Hester HugeDisk column we innocently
ran a link from the words "dumb motherfucker" to George W. Bush's
on-line campaign store. The search engines noticed that we, along with
a few other websites, endorsed George as a "dumb motherfucker" and
adjusted George's search engine rankings accordingly.
This is actually interesting. A lot of people use "here" and "click
here" to meaninglessly point to some other place. So I wanted to see
with Google the pages that are referred to like that (supposing that
they are going to appear first).
"click here"[1] and "here"[2] queries give Adobe Acrobat Reader first.
Neither "click" nor "here" appear in the page. I guess that a lot of
people <a href="...">click here</a> to download Acrobat Reader.
1.
http://www.google.com/search?q=click+here&btnG=Google+Search
2.
http://www.google.com/search?q=here&btnG=Google+Search
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