Media
Monday, March 04, 2002
The effect that weblogs have on Google has a name: Google Bomb. Here's how Google Bombs work.
1:40:20 PM #
categories: Media, Writing Online
On Friday, Dave Winer posted a link to an analysis of how Scientology has manipulated Google in order to prevent anti-Scientology sites from ranking highly. Wes Felter is trying an experiment: linking to anti-scientology sites to boost their rankings in Google. Raph Levien notes that in PageRank "small changes to the graph cause small changes to the resulting rankings."
Given the love that Google seems to have for things linked to by scripting.com, how fast will Operation Clambake rise to the top? It's number 4 now.
10:59:25 AM #
categories: Media, Writing Online