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Re:Google is Breaking the Internet by guiambros on Sunday May 18, 2014 @03:25PM (#7764036)
The letter from the company asking to remove the links reveal they used a shady SEO company to generate artificial inbound links. Not a surprise that Google got some false positives -- particularly coming from a SEO blog.

Not really "breaking the internet".

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Re:Google is Breaking the Internet by ZenPro on Sunday May 18, 2014 @05:04PM (#7764415)
It pretty much is if organic hyperlinks become feared entities.

No hyperlinks = no internet.

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Re:Google is Breaking the Internet by 205guy on Sunday May 18, 2014 @06:44PM (#7764711)
Really? It often seems like the original PageRank algorithm was using links as a measure of content quality and relevance, and now everyone claims they are. But thanks to SEO, we saw that was false (homework question: would it still be true in an Internet where all actors are committed to creating "good" content?). I think links are independent of content quality (or rather search result ranking, because quality is subjective), and we need better AI based solely on page content.
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