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Scientists Unlock Reasons Cancer Spreads
* * Beatles-Beatles writes "Instead of a cell just breaking off from a tumor and traveling through the bloodstream to another organ where it forms a secondary tumour, or metastasis, researchers in the United States have shown that the cancer sends out envoys to prepare the new site."
Can someone link to/explain the Beatles-Beatles ref. please?
-Jar
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Carl Fogle seems like a really greasy bastard, promoting some schmaltzy Beatles memorabilia with an otherwise interesting cancer story.
Of course, the funny thing is that if he's misuing the PageRank of Slashdot, that increases the odds that geeks at Google will take note of what the greaseball Carl Fogle is doing, resulting in his sites getting bodyslammed in the future. That will hurt his business, and he won't be getting so much Geld when it is all over.
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What is the reason for cancer to spread? What is the reason for tree to grow? They discovered a mechanism not a reason.
...YOU'VE got to be kidding me. Who cares? I personally have so far found all the stuff he's submitted to be interesting information, so I couldn't care less what his username links to! Slashdot is a news site, and he's posting nows, so what the hell is the problem?
Slashdot comments have rel='nofollow' in the tag. So they won't change your Page Rank at all.
If you can't find a way, make one!
Someone, please, call the 911-GET-A-CLUE. We have a man down!
This is googles cache of slashdot, as you might notice it is quite old. Now that doesn't really hold any proof for how often google actually _indexes_ the frontpage, but according to my own "research" I'd say it's no more often than every twelve hours. Now, what does this mean?
Every twelve hour googles comes to download the frontpage and finds a link to beatles-beatles homepage. What does it do? It looks on the older copies of slashdot.org and finds what? That it isnt there! It's a temporary link. No consistency. Does that mean it gets a even share of that juicy pr9 pagerank? No it doesnt. It means it hardly gets any pr.
So please, do us all a favor, go read up on the theories on pagerank and then, please please please, stay with the uninformed designer mac-zealots over at digg.com
So please, do us all a favor, go read up on the theories on pagerank and then, please please please, stay with the uninformed designer mac-zealots over at digg.com
I've just emphasised that little gem in your tirade. Neither you nor I nor in all likelihood Beatles-Beatles knows exactly how Google pagerank works. But we, and he, can make educated guesses. You think **Beatles-Beatles is just doing this for kicks? This is a professional search engine spammer we're talking about here.
He's doing this for a reason. Is that reason to get Kudos on Slashdot or to try and increase his Google pagrank. I'll let the good people in the audience figure that one out.
Note please that it doesn't actually matter if this method is working or not. **Beatles-Beatles is attempting to abuse Slashdot to gain pagerank, and he is succeeding in making fools of the editors even if his pagerank remains in the doldrums.
He's making us all look bad. But as you say, I suspect Google are wise to this sort of thing, even if the Slashdot eds aren't.
And by the way, Slashdot stories get copied almost verbatum by a multitude of other sites, so Beatles-Beatles' story, name and sitelink is going to be plastered all over quite a number of sites across the net.
You don't believe me? Here's the a Google search of "ObsessiveMathsFreak writes". Notice the one and only submission I ever got posted is in more sites thatn Slashdot. The list used to be much, much higher.
This came to my attendtion because after posting the story, I was bombarded with spam. My email was included in the article, and with the articles proliferation across the net, so too was my email address duplicated everywhere for all the spammers address crawler bots to see. I've since had to abandon that address. A note of caution to all posters.
Now. Replace email address by site address, and "spammers address crawler bots" by "Google pagerank" bot, and you can see exactly why Beatles-Beatles is doing what he's doing. Let's hope the eds do as well.
May the Maths Be with you!
Am I the only one to notice the little mod war going on? Anyone criticizing the editors and/or the submitter get's modded down for Trolling and Off-topic posting. Anyone supporting the editors gets modded down for trolling. The best comments of both worlds still make through due to additional Insightful and Informative mods, but it really seems like the editors are trying to squash these threads of discussion and the commenters are fighting back.
Comments do, headlines don't. THat's why he's submitting articles - it gets his followable linked name into the headlines.
Can you?
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