RE: Mass Manipulation By Search Engine

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The term "technorati" was often used to describe people who used technical skills to control the public perception of technology and politics. There was a popular forum by that name.

Googlebot developed a Page Rank feature . The feature simply counted all of the inbound links to web sites that appeared on web sites and forums to determine the most popular sites.

So, one could manipulate Google results by generating links. Google added features to block spammers.

"spam" is often in the eye of the beholder. Google would tag sites they did not like as spammers and those they did like as trusted.

The technorati became skilled at using the anti-spam features in conjunction with their SEO efforts to dominate the search engine results.

Anyway, the current state of affairs is quite sad. The best we can do is remind people that search engine results are suspect.

and, of course, people should stay away from ivermectin 'cuz Trumpers want to fight COVID with horse medicine.



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