The Anti-Thesaurus: Unwords For Web Searches 148
Nicholas Carroll writes: "In the continual struggle between search engine administrators, index spammers, and the chaos that underlies knowledge classification, we have endless tools for 'increasing relevance' of search returns, ranging from much ballyhooed and misunderstood 'meta keywords,' to complex algorithms that are still far from perfecting artificial intelligence. Proposal: there should be a metadata standard allowing webmasters to manually decrease the relevance of their pages for specific search terms and phrases."
You know this is going to happen (Score:4, Funny)
Bad planning (Score:5, Funny)
That's not going to help bandwidth (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How about this? (Score:3, Funny)
You can guess why: Search engine developers buy copies of the same software, learn how to recognize its output, and then demote your site or block it altogether when they spot that pattern in your pages.
no hard "this site was banned" but it seems there are some who do demote/block if they catch you putting garbage in your keyword list.
PS if any porn site puts 'alan turing' in their keywords I would actually want to go there - shows some imagination to say the least, gotta give them props for that...
Re:Sounds Good (Score:1, Funny)
A part they left out of the story; (Score:4, Funny)
Could have done with this years ago (Score:2, Funny)