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The Anti-Thesaurus: Unwords For Web Searches

Posted by timothy on from the these-are-not-the-words-you're-looking-for dept.

Nicholas Carroll writes: "In the continual struggle between search engine administrators, index spammers, and the chaos that underlies knowledge classification, we have endless tools for 'increasing relevance' of search returns, ranging from much ballyhooed and misunderstood 'meta keywords,' to complex algorithms that are still far from perfecting artificial intelligence. Proposal: there should be a metadata standard allowing webmasters to manually decrease the relevance of their pages for specific search terms and phrases."

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  1. You know this is going to happen by Satai · · Score: 4, Funny
    I can see it now. To Do lists are being written up as we speak...

    1. Increase relevance for Penis Enlargement.
    2. Decrease relevance for Bullshit.


  2. Bad planning by ahoehn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not such a bright idea to whine about too much traffic on your website and then get a link to your site from a slashdot article.

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    Mod my comments down. It'll be fun.
  3. A part they left out of the story; by vectus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Webmasters, however, should be careful with these new "anti-words", as when they mix with their word counterpart, a gigantic explosion results.