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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. hoem paeg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    When will SOMEONE post a story about the 'ad-words' link on Google's home page?!

    IF SOMEONE DOESN'T STOP THIS QUICK, MICRSOFT WILL BUY ALL THE LINUX KEYWORDS AND POINT THEM TO FECAL JAPAN OR LINUXPRO!!!!!!

    Also, BSD users will take over the world in a fail attempt to write an easy-to-use installer.

  2. An interesting question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you search for goatse.cx, does slashdot come up?