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Old 10-30-2003, 08:55 PM  
mardigras
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: down yonder
Posts: 14,194
I'll give Google 5¢ for 100 shares

I've been #1 for a gay search term for at least a year. Suddenly my page is nowhere in the 45,000 pages it says match that term. A number of results from pages that link my page come up but then Google says there are no pages linking to my site. DOH!

The site that is at number one now says it is a gay site according to a very similar title to the one I used but is nothing more than a straight gallery with a straight popup hell. There is nothing at all gay on the page. (Way to go Google, you sure optimized that one...NOT. It's algorithms not AL GORE Rhythms! ). What really sucks is that people will be beating down the door to get stock in what they think is the greatest search engine ever while behind the scenes changes make the only way to return to being listed is outbid everyone else and you can even lie about your content. Hey, maybe they will even start to charge hundreds of bucks to even "consider" your site for inclusion, I always loved that plan. I guess Google will eventually become one of those multi-level marketing search engines that give you the same results despite what you put in when some company who decides to roost the internet buys enough keywords.

While I'm on it, can anyone tell me what the function is of keywording a page and it's title to come up in a gay search when it is a 100% straight page? I get that crap in e-mail too. Do gay guys really buy straight porn from you if you lie in the search engine and e-mail spam and tell them that it's gay?

What's even funnier is that 2 sites I update every day with on-topic to the keywords content have a page rank of 1/10 while a place-holding page I slapped together a couple of weeks ago and haven't touched since and has no traffic is rated at 2/10.

I changed my mind... I'll give Google for those 100 shares
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