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Modern Day Search Engine Manipulations

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-happened-to-just-being-popular? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I fondly recall the days of yore when search engines could be manipulated just by sticking thousands of extraneous filler words in the META tags or hidden at the bottom of the page. Nowadays search engines work by more advanced techniques that generally don't fall prey to these simplistic tactics, but it'd be folly to presume them impervious. Does it still happen?"

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  1. The answer, my friends... by bsDaemon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    is Blowin' in the wind

  2. Screw that - what's really cool is... by FyRE666 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    having your NAME come top of the list when you type it as a search ;-) See that Scott Porter bloke? That's me, that is! I also get second place, dunno who that imposter is at number 3 though... grrr... ;-)

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