From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 13:57:04 MST
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Doug Jones wrote:
> For every measure there is an inequal but opposite countermeasure.
> Google will be strengthened by this if their programmers are any good at
> all.
Would seem to require real AI. I've been planting my .sig into diverse web
archives for a while to jiggle the Google ranking for "leitl". It's not
easy for a spider to tell the poisoning of the googlejuice (pardon the
freebasingprimateism) by just looking at the link, and human eyeballs are
really scarce, so I don't see how you could do much but to blacklist
certain well known services (yahoogroups would come to mind).
However, the days of Google's greatness might be passing (who does still
remember AltaVista these days?). Going PC on ads is the first sign of
decline. They're still doing cute stuff (witness the Googlebar for the
Exploder), but they're starting to tarnish around the edges.
P2P search engines seem to kill their original niche anyways, so they'd
better diversify.
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