Porn Blogs Manipulate Google

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Not exactly a fresh article but I found it last night when I was searching for blogs to trade with. If only google could set up a system to weed out all the crappy blogs I would be happy.


Porn Blogs Manipulate Google

By Daniel Terdiman | Also by this reporter

02:00 AM Aug. 03, 2004 PT


When Google bought blogging software pioneer Blogger last year, it probably didn't expect that its new technology would be used to goose the page rankings of porn sites.

But that's exactly what's happening, as an outfit called CyberQuest has recently set up a few dozen cross-linked, porn-themed Blogspot blogs (powered by Blogger), all of which link to three of its for-profit porn sites. According to a couple of experienced bloggers, the purpose behind the cross-linking strategy is to artificially raise the Google rankings of the three porn sites.