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'Online Poker' Googlebomb

Posted by timothy on from the good-or-evil dept.

Philipp Lenssen writes "The blogger community is fighting back, though in ways not everyone may like: they are Googlebombing the Wikipedia page on online poker for the phrase "online poker" to make it rank higher in search engines. "Online poker", along with "Viagra", "mortgage" and "debt", are keywords heavily represented in comment spam, which itself aims to boost the Google ranking for a particular site and phrase. The Wikipedia page is currently third in Google."

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  1. You submitted this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But you didn't even go to the trouble of linking the term online poker to Wikipedia in your submission? Slashdot has some healthy pagerank, too, ya know.

    1. Re:You submitted this... by peculiarmethod · · Score: 5, Funny


      I couldn't in all fairness let you get away with that without the opportunity to help out my fellow brothers by slashdotting these guys.

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  2. Re:I'm feeling lucky by themoodykid · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess if they hit the "I'm feeling lucky" and end up on the Wikipedia page, they probably aren't lucky enough to play online poker anyway.

  3. Re:That's it?! by Trillan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, I suppose the button "I'm feeling lucky!" makes a lot more sense in the context of online poker.

    In all seriousness, some people I know have started using google IFL links on blogs rather tahn direct links. The idea is that in five years if the Captain Crunch brand changes, an I'm Feeling Lucky search for Captain Crunch will probably take you to the new page.

  4. French bullDOG? by AtariAmarok · · Score: 5, Funny
    "The strangest spam I got was for a french buldog site"

    That does seem strange. If it was a French Bullfrog site instead, it would be quite understandable.

    "I have developed some methods for controling it, but I do not want to divulge them publiclly since the bad guys would then know my counter measures"

    Yeah, I know. Those French bulldog guys play hardball. They monitor all the Slashdot posts, too, so you are wise not to reveal your tricks. I know myself, that every time someone mods me down, it has to be one of those bulldog spammers.

    "Click on http://www.parismastiff.com for your best Gallic bulldog deals!"

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