Re: Fw: [TOTALLY OT] Google fun

[madsaxon <madsaxon () direcway com>]

At 04:16 PM 1/29/2004 +0100, Nico Golde wrote:

> how does such a google bombing work?

Hi Nico,

One of the ways Google determines ranking is by how many
links exist to a given site or object.  If you convince a number
of people to provide a link from the word "bastards"
pointing to www.sco.com, Google assumes it's a popular site
for that topic and ranks it accordingly.

m5x

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