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The Journalist and the Troll
- emodendroket 11y agoWell, here is the flip side of European businessmen and celebrities getting Google to take down stories about scandals they were involved in, I guess.
- ikeboy 11y ago>The site’s former editor-in-chief testified that all Wey really cared about were the pieces on his enemies and that he tacked on comments under fake names to push the articles further up in search results. Is this true? Why would articles with more comments have higher rankings? Google checks for that?
- SolarNet 11y agoHe way be adding other search terms. Or perhaps the person in question meant comments from other sites (like reddit) which would increase the number of links to the content (which is exactly what google looks for).
- emodendroket 11y agoI don't know if it really works. But intuitively I can see some value in promoting content with high "engagement."