A few years ago -- when I considered to switch to Linux --, I looked whether it offered all I need. Thus I searched for 'Winzip Linux replacement'.
Th first search result was a post on a SUSE mailing list, leading to two archivers. They were both out of date, and their screenshots showed an ugly and horrible GTK 1.* interface. This made me wonder whether Linux was not just useless piece of junk. At least, GTK 2 was already out, then. The results were unchanged until recently. So, it would have been useful if File-Roller had (a) a homepage and (b) some SEO techniques running because how should people know to search for 'File-Roller' when they, in fact, are looking for a replacement for Winzip under Linux? However, it would have been also useful if these two out-of-date projects would have disabled their homepages, showing links to proper archivers, instead. You see, it's sometimes misleading to do nothing. So, using a link similar to <a href="http://www.gnome.org">an easy-to-use desktop environment for Linux and UNIX</a> is absolutely useful for search engine users. Additionally, the marketing mailing list has no authority on people. If some of them consider to change their habits of linking to the GNOME web page, this is absolutely "spontaneous". It fits your definition. Cheers, Claus On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:28:44 -0300 "Santiago Roza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the very purpose of search engines' indexing algorithms is to show the > real positioning of websites, based on their "spontaneous" popularity > in relation to the search terms. > > any attempt to manipulate that positioning is not only unethical, but > also considered cheap promotion of very bad taste. if we want gnome > to be listed #1 in a "desktop" search, let's just work harder and > harder, until one day maybe people will *really* link to our website > when talking about that. > > but until then let's try not to lie, ok? > > > -- > Santiago Roza > Departamento I+D - Thymbra > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list