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Friday, May 13, 2005

Another Site Caught Gaming Google

By Nathan Weinberg

Yet another highly regarded site with high PageRank has been caught gaming Google. This time, its Syndic8.com, and once again, Andy Baio is on the case.

Last time, if you may remember, it was Matt from WordPress who added over 100,000 spam articles to his website, using his high PageRank to lure Google searchers, who would then hopefully click on the ads. Now Syndic8, a popular RSS feed indexer, is doing the same thing. And unlike Matt, they are quite proud of it.

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