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Target.com's Aggressive SEO Tactic Spams Google

Posted by kdawson on from the wide-of-the-mark dept.

eldavojohn writes "Greg Niland is blogging about target.com's aggressive near-spam search engine optimization, and is more than a little critical not only of how this affects the most popular search engine, but also why it will probably persist. If you want an example, search for 'Exercise Bike Clearance' and click the first link."

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  1. Re:Easy response by farlukar · · Score: 5, Funny

    As if slashdotters would search for exercise bikes...

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  2. Re:How are these getting indexed? by glwtta · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, that makes it "undesirable to Google" rather than "wrong".

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  3. I have found the solution!... by Tei · · Score: 4, Funny

    But is on expect-exchange.

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  4. Re:Easy response by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course they do. But only to install Linux on them.

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  5. Re:Easy response by digitalchinky · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bing! Are you sure that even searches the same internet? :-)

  6. Re:Could have made it a link by ta+bu+shi+da+yu · · Score: 4, Funny

    I tried site:target.com we could not find matches for and the third option was Anal Massage for Lovers Vol 2.

    I wasn't aware that Target marketed to this demographic.

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  7. Re:haha - Mod up! by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 3, Funny

    'Anal Massage for Lovers Vol 2 Wow.

    Vol 1 wasn't enough? Wow indeed!

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  8. Re:Easy response by Bakkster · · Score: 1, Funny

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of exercise bikes!

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  9. Re:Easy response by 2obvious4u · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't that called a gym?

  10. Re:Could have made it a link by oldhack · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... I have found the older folks just eat it up. They treat it [Yahoo home page] as "the paper" and will often spend quite a few minutes there reading headlines, checking their Yahoo Mail, looking at stock quotes or checking their horoscope, before every venturing onto the "real" web.

    And then they come out to ./, telling us to get off their lawns, rambling on about their onion belt and whatnot.

    Crazy old people.

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  11. Re:Easy response by ArsonSmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    WTF is a gym?

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  12. Re:Could have made it a link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And c'mon LtCol Burrito, do you honestly beleive I don't know the difference between sponsored links and actual results? I'm not new to this internet thingy.

    Well, you clearly don't know the difference between .co.uk and .com !