From: the animated silicon love doll (cheshire@velvet.net)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 08:28:05 MST
taken from Slashdot:
Google Juice
The Internet | Posted by timothy on 7:06 Wednesday 13 March 2002
from the matter-of-time dept.
mpawlo writes: "I guess it is time to start using them bookmarks again,
since favourite search engine Google seems to be on the verge of Altavista
doom and search engine chaos. BBC News reports of Google bombing (often
referred to as 'Google juice' by the infamous Crackmonkey subscribers).
'The users have found a way to "bomb" Google to improve the rankings of
particular webpages, and ensure a site is near the top of the results for
particular search phrases.' There is also the sport of Google Whacking
affecting your search results."
BBC article is at http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_
1868000/1868395.stm
Slashdot article at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/13/141202
&mode=nested&tid=95
So, if Google starts dropping in accuracy, what will replace it? I've used
Wisenut (www.wisenut.com) a bit, and it seems pretty good too.
And more importantly, if Google is no longer accurate, what will happen to
Eliezer's trinity of Knowledge, Truth, and Beauty?
cheshire morgan. Advance and never halt, for advancing is perfection.
Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path,
for they draw only corrupt blood.
-Kahlil Gibran
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