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A Search Engine Manipulator's Tale

NevDull writes "Well known Search Engine Optimization expert Greg Boser of WebGuerrilla shares how he manipulates search engine results, using simple techniques, with Wired Magazine." From the article: "The search engines live in a fantasy world...Every link is a vote. But people buy and sell links."

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  1. search engines can be manipulated? Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
  2. Re:search engines can be manipulated? Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Where exactly is manipulation involved in that link? I can't see any.

  3. Re:On no by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    perhaps you'd appreciate this then too. HOT GAY COCK

  4. I'm as much a google fanboy as anyone... by Kimos · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... but this is getting silly! Still interesting, but kinda silly.

    Good old googledot.

  5. Re:On no by suso · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks a lot.

  6. I like to confuse the search engines by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    By putting my servers in different positions in the server room a couple of times a week

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  7. Re:Call these people by their real titles please by micromoog · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean a shady, fly-by-night business specializing in deception may not be able to deliver on promises? I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you!

  8. Re:On no by MalaclypseTheYounger · · Score: 2, Funny

    That is the funniest fucking thing I've seen on here in a long, long time.... KUDOS, Anonymous Coward!

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  9. Re:On no by QuantumRiff · · Score: 2, Funny

    but hot gay cock will show up to google.. He might be getting some really interesting customers for his web hosting soon.

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  10. Get him, boys! by TiggertheMad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why would you post a link to his site that says HOT GAY COCK? I looked at the site and there isn't any mention of HOT GAY COCK on it. I mean, I've never been to a HOT GAY COCK page before, but I can imagine what a HOT GAY COCK site looks like. I mean, it doesn't even seem close to a HOT GAY COCK site. First off, there needs to be a lot more HOT GAY COCK on the site. And when I say more, I mean at least one HOT GAY COCK. There isn't even one single HOT GAY COCK to be found.

    Now, you may find yorself suddenly at the top of Googles rankings for HOT GAY COCK. Don't thank me, just convert your hosting businuess over to a pr0n site that has HOT GAY COCK, rake in the cash, and send me a cut. Afterall, Does your hosting businuess really make more money than a HOT GAY COCK site?

    Now that we have worn that joke out completely, you should check the google listing for you page in a week or two to see where it is in the ranking for HGC. Since all the links to your site regarding HGC are from /., it will give you an idea ho heavily slashdot's links are weighed in the ranking system. It would be interesting to see how quickly you get a boost from silliness such as this.

    (mods: this honestly isn't a troll, read the parent and grandparent posting.)

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  11. Re:No, not really. by micromoog · · Score: 2, Funny
    What was I looking for? "Founder sabermetrics". "french english dictionary". "oprah runner's world cover". "jprofiler". "hiroshima kilotons".

    That was a rare (and frightening!) look inside someone else's brain. Thank you.

  12. The good thing by Anonymous+Cowdog · · Score: 2, Funny

    The good thing is that, while it is indeed true that the search engines are manipulable, at least they do have workmanlike user interfaces.

  13. Re:On no by IpSo_ · · Score: 2, Funny

    I used to work in the large hosting business, and the gay porn sites were usually premium customers to have. The running joke around the office was if we ever wanted to make quick cash, it would be to get in the gay porn business.

    You wouldn't believe how much traffic they push, and the money they are willing to spend on servers.

    Of course, the problem was always if they called support and complained that their images weren't showing up...

    God bless Lynx. ;)

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