At 23:46 10/31/2000 -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.
>
>We should publish something about the W3C Google scam. :-)
I'm non-plussed with Diana's taste in women (Liv Tyler and Heather Lockleer,
it's all about Brittany out there! <grin>), and her concern with this
problem. I agree with Google, I've long recognized one could do this (and I
would actually use a couple of domains as the easiest way to address this by
google is to deprecate the value of links to their own domain (for which W3C
must be the most dense site in the world)).
If the algorithms work well for 99.9% of the queries, I doubt I'd be
inclined to change it for this <.01% screw case unless it improved all
searches.
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