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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. What Can Google Do? by Krankheit · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Is Google doing anything to stop Google bombing? Is there anything they can do? I'm hoping Google will improve their GoogleBot so that sites that Google bomb to get into the top ten ranking stop getting in the top ten ranking, unless they truely what the user wants to see (informative). Wikipedia is likely to be quite informative though, so IMO this particular Google bomb is justified.

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  2. I so do not get this. by porcupine8 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Could someone please explain what they're trying to accomplish here? This makes no sense to me at all. In any way.

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  3. highly unethical by j0nb0y · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I think this is online poker high unethical. online poker It's a dirty, underhanded online poker tactic when spammers use online poker it, and we shouldn't online poker stoop to their online poker level.

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