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Google Blocks 'Optimized' Pages

Posted by timothy on from the they-own-their-servers dept.

Rhett Creighton writes "For the past few years, webmasters have found tricks that bring their page higher for a given keyphrase search. Google recently implemented a filter to block sites that appeared to be tricking it into gaining a higher ranking. This NYTimes article reports of angry retailers who are losing their businesses, while this article gives more technical conspiracy theories of what google is actually doing."

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  1. Re:Needs works by davew666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The key words are 'I'm Feeling Lucky' - not 'I'm in the mood to be mentally scarred for fricking life

    You think that site is bad?! It's nothing compared to this

  2. They have more important things to worry about by x-router · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Like being sued by SCO http://www.linuxworld.com/story/38045.htm

  3. Google is getting ahead of itself... by EvilSporkMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But one of Google's guidelines, posted at its Web sites, says, "Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content." The company warns offenders that they can be removed from the search engine.
    Since when are they the Internet nazis?

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  4. All about the man by joeytsai · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    google is a user's best friend
    google is tops for work time searches
    google is still spidering and caching my old server
    google is goood
    google is urged to go public
    google is the real winner in its own
    google is the world's favorite search engine
    google is faaasst
    google is dancing
    google is your friend
    google is gong bezerk
    google is featuring the google
    google is $deity
    google is so cool
    google is lief
    google is first time our top referer
    google is microsoft ?
    google is a powerful weapon indeed
    google is 'feeling lucky'
    google is excluding knife advertising
    google is a harsh mistress
    google is gong bezerk it seems forums are flooded with complaints about google's new search algorithms
    google is a target for any optimization campaign simply because it has managed to obtain the most attention from users on search
    google is just the juice
    google is probably archiving all of your images
    google is a part of my brain
    google is god don't piss her off
    google is a global phenomenon

    google is thinking
    google is skynet
    google is just freaking me out
    google is watching you

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