Webmasters Pounce On Wiki Sandboxes

Yacoubean writes "Wiki sandboxes are normally used to learn the syntax of wiki posts. But webmasters may soon deluge these handy tools with links back to their site, not to get clicks, but to increase Google page rank. One such webmaster recently demonstrated this successfully. Isn't it time for Google finally to put some work into refining their results to exclude tricks like this? I know all the bloggers and wiki maintainers would sure appreciate it."

Comments

Re:Why just wikis?

[Dirk Pitt]

Yeah, you know if 'bastards' brings up your site before a mention of the republicans, you're doing something very wrong.

Re:Who's fault is that?

[themusicgod1]

If the internet has associated the ideas "miserable failure" and "bush" together, then I'm sorry, you are just going to have to live with this. Just because you can't see the connection, a connection so strong that it is the number one connection measured at this location currently, doesn't mean that it's not a valid one.

When I use a search engine, I am NOT looking for a webpage with the words that I enter in, ie example if I were to search for "miserable failure" I would not be looking for a webpage with "miserable failure", but rather the meaning behind those two words, and the best examples of webpages that describe miserable failures, the state of being a miserable failure, or something in relation to the state of being a miserable failure. The internet seems to agree that bush is an example of the above. If poeple wanted to look for the exact words they type into google, when they use google, google would not provide spelling suggestions when mis-spellings occur...this is yet another example at how the meaning is what is sought, not the words.

The 'webpage must contain text' / plaintext search idea just plain sucks. This is how search engines used to rank, wasn't it? And didn't google blow them all out of the water, so to speak? Because it worked better, and was less prone to abuse? And what really on the internet, would be a good idea of "miserable failure", other than bush? (feel free to link to it) There is doubless imprvement to be made on google...but it's pretty damn good as it is.