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I personally know the founder of an SEO company that is running around 50 fake searches per second as I type this.
by downandout 11y ago
I personally know the founder of an SEO company that is running around 50 fake searches per second as I type this.
- meeper16 11y ago...and is likely pinging his 5000 or 500,000 fake social networking profiles every second.
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- legutierr 11y agoVery interesting. I assume that he is doing that in order to collect up-to-date search result data. Or is he actually attempting to manipulate search results (or AdWords ratings) in some way?
- halcyondaze 11y agoIt's to manipulate the 'auto-complete' feature.
- downandout 11y agoBingo. That, and clicking on results that are further down actually does help propel them higher.
- vorg 11y agoSome outfits don't just do fake searches but also fake downloads. E.g. visit https://bintray.com/groovy/maven/groovy/view/statistics#statistics https://bintray.com/groovy/maven/groovy/view/statistics#stat... then click on date range "1 year" and wonder why the daily download numbers suddenly multiplied by 10 in late May. You'll have trouble believing the 2.5 million download number for Groovy from Bintray, and wonder how long they've been running the same ploy with Maven.
- thebournepopret 11y agoLate May is the beginning of intern/coop season and Groovy and Maven are popular technologies used by software engineering interns. Could explain some of the spike.