moderately benign the other day, and the first ten links were almost all
taken up by placeholder pages for half-assed "search" sites. Click on
one and you're bombarded by Xupiter install requests, "Would you like to
set your homepage to shittywebpage.com?", pop-ups, pop-unders, banner
ads and (shudder) MIDI tunes.
Google does respond to complaints, though. I sent my search query and a
list of results that were obviously nothing more than hijack links, and
they were extricated from future results. I wish I could remember what
the searches were for, now :)
- Jim
Kevin Graeme wrote:
>The link Philip gave is the clue.
>
>One of Google's biggest determinants in ranking is how many sites link to a
>site. Also, Google pays particular attention to the actual wording of the
>text within the <a href>. So by having lots of bloggers include this: "<a
>href="" failure</a>" on their posts,
>there is a multitude of that specific phrase pointing to the white house
>site.
>
>It's a basic search engine placement strategy that has been turned on it's
>ear into a Google hax. Now the real question is what happens with the next
>administration? Will those cobwebs still be there, or will they have dropped
>enough by then to negate the effect?
>
>BTW, this came up in some additional reading:
>http://www.gwbush.com/
>
>-Kevin
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ian Skinner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 9:42 AM
>Subject: RE: Cute
>
>
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>
>>After enjoying a nice giggle, the geek in me wanted to know how this was
>>
>>
>set
>
>
>>up? Any ideas? Would it had to have been done from inside by a Google
>>employee, or could somebody set it up from outside? Could it have somehow
>>happened unintentionally, even though neither the words "miserable" or
>>"failure" appear anywhere on the page?
>>
>>The geek in me wants to know.
>>
>>--------------
>>Ian Skinner
>>Web Programmer
>>BloodSource
>>www.BloodSource.org
>>Sacramento, CA
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jim Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 4:49 AM
>>To: CF-Community
>>Subject: Cute
>>
>>
>>Google for "miserable failure".
>>
>>- Jim
>> _____
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