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Slashdot Google Bombers?
muirhead asks: "As a proud new dad, I made a web site to share some baby photos. Having seen this article about Google Bombing, I gave it a go and posted comments to Slashdot, Newsforge, Kuro5hin and LinuxWorld. Some of the pages have a high enough PageRank to show up as links into my site. Now, there are quite a few phrases that I can tell folk to google, and know my site will show top of the list. My favourites are Ruby Orange and Mutley Sleeps, but of course, I want more. What other free sites and means do you know of that I can use to further increase the visibility of my website?"
Why can't you just give a URL out to your friends? Why would you want to publicize a site which will only be of interest to people you know AND sick perverts that want to look at your child in a much different way than you intended? I understand the desire to share pictures of your new child with family and friends but you might want to reconsider sharing it with the whole world. If I were to create a Internet photo album, I would keep it low-key. Why pay bandwidth bills so strangers can look at your kid?
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I know, I know, most of the posts have been unhelpful thus far.. But I have to ask, should they be? We rely on Google as a tool for relevance for specific searchs, and "Google Bombing," as it so blatantly suggests, undermines this. If you site is good and relevant, it should rise to the top without any such techniques. If it doesn't.. It probably isn't relevant to the searches.
Sorry for going off on this, but Google is a touchy subject for me lots of others - mainly 'cause other things suck. =)
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I agree to everything you just said. We don't want to need 'google-bomb filters' in order to use google like we need spam filters to use e-mail.
... I just put something in my .sig and left it at that.
Oh, and I put up some baby pics in my cube.
I'm sure your little one is cute, but I don't walk around inflicting my family photos on random strangers, and you shouldn't either.
And to the guy who keeps posting that people with families aren't actual Slashdot readers: Married ten years, daughter is two and a half. And I call myself Moody Loner. If there's hope for me, there's hope for anybody.
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Alexandria Morrigan born 2/22/01 l. 20.5in wt. 7 lbs. 5 oz.
Time to quit it.
This is ridiculous. I have been trying to post an Ask Slashdot for weeks involving a specific question about recycling old hardware. My question doesn't see the posts, but some guy wanting his family album to be seen does. What the f*ck are the editors thinking?
The only remotely redeeming possibility I can think of for this original article is that geeks can get laid too.