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Re:Search Engines Will Deindex All Domains That Have 100 Lin... by kej on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @02:56PM (#30263684)
This seems like it would be relatively easy to abuse. Throw a bunch of pirate links on your competitor's comment page over a holiday weekend, or something, and suddenly they don't show up in searches anymore.
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Re:Search Engines Will Deindex All Domains That Have 100 Lin... by inter_netuser on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @06:51PM (#30266566)
add some to sites.google.com, see how they like them apples.
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Re:Search Engines Will Deindex All Domains That Have 100 Lin... by JaimeThompson on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @08:11PM (#30267291)
Since they already treat their own sites differently I bet nothing would happen.
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Re:Search Engines Will Deindex All Domains That Have 100 Lin... by elforce002 on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @06:03PM (#30266119)
My God, hehe. You came up with that really quick.
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Re:Search Engines Will Deindex All Domains That Have 100 Lin... by LorenPechtel on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @06:47PM (#30266528)
It was my first thought on reading the article, also. Programming teaches you to have a lot of respect for how things can go wrong.
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