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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. Online Poker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And linking Online Poker to Wikipedia will help because? These bloggers have way too much time on their hands. I'm pretty sure the absence of blogs would result in significant productivity gains at most American companies.

  2. =O by FoXDie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    EGAD WIKI-HAX! =\

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  3. the internet by PoopJuggler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    is now just a giant unending circular assfuck frenzy

  4. Re:You submitted this... by DA-MAN · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In the search box, type in "pc133 512mb".

    The guy said laptop memory, so it would be pc133 sodimm 512bm. The cheapest Pricewatch pulls up is $74.49. The sig wanted it for 15 bucks cheaper, close but no cigar there spanky . . .

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  5. Re:Pointless by Peyna · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You shouldn't critique other people's grammar when you don't know how to use commas or quotation marks properly.

    rhyme with "merrible".

    Should read: rhyme with "merrible."

    Enough voters, and things change.

    "Things change" could be a sentence on its own, the rest of the sentence fails miserably. Unless you meant "Enough voters" and "things" to be the subjects of your sentence, but that makes even less sense. "Enough voters" doesn't stand on its own, so the ", and" is out of place.

    It's using the system as it's set up.

    The point isn't that people are misusing the system; the point is that the system is flawed.

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  6. Re:Pointless by Peyna · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Things change" could be a sentence on its own, the rest of the sentence fails miserably.

    Add a "While" to the beginning of that sentence. =]

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  7. Banana republic... by Tough+Love · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...currently hits on the European Council at number 3. This is as a result of the (elected) Council's antidemocratic campaign to force Bill Gates' software patent agenda on the European Union, in direct contravention of the wishes of the the (elected) European Parliament.

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  8. Re:You submitted this... by jaavaaguru · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wrong way round. Paragraphs are in pages.

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