Porn Sites Using Blogspot To Game Google

from the this-is-a-surprise? dept

I think the only thing that's really all that noteworthy about this story is that it didn't happen sooner. In fact, it probably did happen sooner, but the press is just catching on. For quite some time now, people have realized that blogs tend to get higher Page Rank in Google due to their frequently updated nature, and tendency for cross-linking, so a group of porn sites have gotten together and are using bogus Blogspot blogs to boost the Page Rank of their own porn sites. Of course, as the article points out, this will now get to be much more popular, search engines will adjust and it will become useless again.

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    I wonder if Google hasn't caught this already

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    Simon, Aug 4th, 2004 @ 3:32am

    My (blogspot-hosted) blog used to show up quite high in Google's rankings if I vanity searched my own name. Now (as far as I can tell) I'm not in the top 100 on Google, but I'm #1 or #2 on a whole lot of other search engines.

    Possibly Google has lowered the pagerank of blogs?

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    nice posting

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    Rahul Rai, Mar 18th, 2009 @ 8:38pm

    nice posting Gay

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