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Why...[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#15)
by Anonymous User on Tue Apr 26, 2005 at 09:30:33 PM PDT

Why do they bother? Nobody reads irrelevant junk, and certainly nobody follows any links in irrelevant junk.

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by sconeu on Wed Apr 27, 2005 at 07:52:47 AM PDT

It's an attempt to boost google rankings.

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I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the United States of America.
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Eh[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#17)
by Anonymous User on Wed Apr 27, 2005 at 12:59:28 PM PDT

Won't work -- unless people search for "??????573???" and the like on Google regularly, that is.

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Google spam[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#18)
by sconeu on Wed Apr 27, 2005 at 01:22:09 PM PDT

It's not the link text, but the link itself that's being googlebombed.

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I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the United States of America.
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eh...[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#20)
by Anonymous User on Thu Apr 28, 2005 at 04:53:39 PM PDT

but what's the use of the page having a very high rank for a search query term it's utterly irrelevant to? People will do that search, see that the link is garbage of zero relevance, and move on. And get annoyed at Google.

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Google-bombing[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#19)
by ekuns on Wed Apr 27, 2005 at 04:16:20 PM PDT

To add to the previous reply, Google ranks pages in part based on the number of links to that page. If you can create a large number of links to a page from a large number of web forums and blogs, then you can artifically increase that page's Google rank.

See http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/googlebombs.htm, for example.

Also, many of the Google Bombs we see here are using Chinese and other character sets, and will affect people using localized browsers searching in Chinese.

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What google says on this subject.[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#21)
by warnold on Fri Apr 29, 2005 at 08:29:05 AM PDT

If Ed's willing to update his software, he can make these attempts to manipulate google inefective. http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
has the instructions.

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