David M Konopka on Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:30:15 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] [Fwd: SearchSolaris.com "Missing Link"]


Jeez, the guy was passing a funny story on. Lighten up!

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:01:42AM -0400, LeRoy Cressy wrote:
> > I received this from my brother in law and thought it was pretty good.
> [...]
> > _<http://computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,74566,00.html>_
>
> Far from the first time this kind of thing has been written about,
> and it's never been news.
>
> Google's rankings work by what words are enclosed in <a> tags (and
> the words surrounding them?) on web pages that are the *source* of a
> link.
>
> So, enough people put "<a href="http://www.microsoft.com";>Microsoft</a>
> can go to hell!" or similar on their web page. Big whoop: a critical
> mass of clued computer users don't like Microsoft. Nothing shocking
> about that.
>
> Stupid Google tricks are so 1999... ;^>
>
> --
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
>

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