Comments on: OTB in the New York Times

By: Steven Taylor

Steven Taylor — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:17:59 +0000

Sean,

Even worse than that, I expect that the HTML version didn't have hyperlink. Getting your name in the paper is good. Getting all that extra traffic even better!

Congrats to OTB for being on the radar of someone at the Times.

By: Sean Hackbarth

Sean Hackbarth — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:49:45 +0000

Heaven forbid the Times actually put a name to the quotes. Webloggers do like their name in the papers as well as their weblog.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:50:51 +0000

Michael,

Right, and all the comment spammers are just the same. Thanks for clearing that up for us. Sheeesh.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:00:07 +0000

Ok, Google built a system that ranks websites by, among other things, the number of links pointing to that website by other websites. As such, even if someone sets out to increase the number of links pointing to a specific website, it doesn't invalidate the results anymore than the old Meta-keyword choice rank manipulation schemes.

Here we have a scheme that involves political websites, containing a lot of original content, linking to a political article containing content you would expect it to contain. It's not gaming the system, it's utilizing the system the way it was built to achieve a predetermined outcome.

By: RJN

RJN — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:24:43 +0000

This seems to confirm the suspicions, and the fears, I have had about Google for some months.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:53:16 +0000

Pfui. Rev. Sensing beat me to it.

By: Donald Sensing

Donald Sensing — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:57:38 +0000

The Noo Yawk Times? Well, "there's no such thing as bad publicity," I guess.

By: Triumph

Triumph — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:04:20 +0000

Yeah, I saw that this morning in the printed copy while I was eating my Cheerios and was waiting for you guys to catch it!

By: Electric Venom

Electric Venom — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:51:31 +0000

Grab The Code, Defuse A Bomb...

Spurred on by Inoperable Terran, I’m joining the efforts of John Hawkins at Right Wing News to counteract the Dem’s Googlebomb with one favoring Republican candidates. If you’re interested in participating, here is a text file contain...