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2005/5/11

sub-domain spamming days are over; whats next

@ 11:20 AM (36 months, 21 days ago)
The key issue here is not the cleaning process; this is natural tendency. The main point here is looking at the motivations; understanding them and finding approvable ways to fund these gozilla-websites. It's easy to teach ethics when you are a global company (see Google corporate policy: do no evil), but when you need money to run a useful website, spam used to be an option. While each webmaster goes on trying to justify his unethical seo spamming methods, google found the way to filter sub-domain spamming sites out of its index. This radically changes the equation of the entire technique, and the quick effect will be one of a "cleaner web". The websites that tried to inflict their high pagerank over spamming sub-domain link-farms will get completelly punished by google. Instead of more Adsense revenue generation farms, we'll witness a cleaner web.

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e-mail and telephone interruptions lowers our IQ

@ 05:35 AM (36 months, 21 days ago)

some recent studies runned in the UK by HP have a surprising result: seems that using the Internet reduces our intelligence:

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