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Re: Companies Subvert Search Results to Squelch Criticism

Steve Sobol (sjsobol@JustThe.net)
Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:47:22 -0700

Monty Solomon wrote:

> It's not illegal, but it's SEO gone bad. Companies such as Quixtar are
> using Google-bombing, link farms and Web spam pages to place positive
> sites in the top search results -- which pushes the negative ones
> down.

Yeah, and there may be no laws against it, but if it's done on a large
enough basis you can bet they'll get sued.

Quixtar's slimy anyhow ... it doesn't surprise me that they were used
as the example in the quoted article.

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