Modern Day Search Engine Manipulations

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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Re:Google Limitations

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There is a way around this. If you set it up right, you can have a cgi that looks like

http://www.fiddle.dee/a/long/directory/path/here

where the cgi script is named "long".

In other words, you can make the question mark go away.

I've done this occasionally. I don't remember why, but it wasn't to fools google.