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Sorry that it's not clear... 3.5 is not a part of it at all. They don't need to link to legitimate websites in order to be a nuisance - they just have to rank

Sorry that it's not clear... 3.5 is not a part of it at all. They don't need to link to legitimate websites in order to be a nuisance - they just have to rank well and therefore push legitimate sites down.

dejb 16y ago
3.5 doesn't even make sense. Why would google penalise a site for being linked from one that ranks for a particular term? If google thought the page was spam then they wouldn't rank it in the first place. The mostly likely result of linking competitors would be to increase their rankings.
- dejb 16y ago
  One day I hope somebody releases a complete list of HN down-voters to wikileaks. A lot of berating will follow.
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