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by msandford 3920 days ago
If that were true, then we will start a company together and become rich!

1. Create a website with a TOS that states "all webpages are for your personal consumption only, any permanent copies which are used for business purposes (including indexing!) constitute grave harm to us, worth $100 per instance"

2. Make many, many pages on that website which all link to one another, let's have at least say 1000s of them

3. Ensure that they rank well for very obscure terms, terms which have a very short results list

4. Do not avail ourselves of robots.txt

5. Get our website linked to through means which do not make it obvious that we're trying to get it linked to

6. Wait for google to index the website

7. Gather the evidence of the indexing activity via search results

8. File a lawsuit against google for breach of contract re: TOS and collect millions

If what you're saying is true, then this is a literally foolproof plan to become millionaires (or more!).