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by HNLurker2 2394 days ago
This is what I used to do back in the day, to get high pagerank(remember that?) In Google
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frei 2394 days ago
You used to defraud the US Government back in the day? For pagerank? Did you get in trouble?
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C1sc0cat 2394 days ago
It was more .edu's back then, I came across more than one (presumably hacked) professors personal sites that where hosting link spam directories
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Thorrez 2394 days ago
If we go back to the original PageRank algorithm, I don't think it would be affected by this attack. The original algorithm just counts the number of links (or number of sites making links), not the TLDs. So a .com site would be just as good as a .gov site.
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HNLurker2 2394 days ago
Yes but they used to had, I remember correctly higher PR. Back in the day (Twitter had 10, Google had 9 and any gov had 7 atleast) I used to buy those and link to my directory webs.
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