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Even if they are susceptible to Google bombing, I don't think Google would reduce the quality of it's results for real searches because of this. Bing probably
by radicaldreamer 16y ago
Even if they are susceptible to Google bombing, I don't think Google would reduce the quality of it's results for real searches because of this.
Bing probably has a ranking algorithm saying that links from google.com search pages have x weight and links from facebook profiles are valued at some other value etc.
- msg 16y agoThey're not just susceptible to Google bombing. They are at the mercy of some easy to automate SEO with the bing toolbar installed. If I were a black hat I'd install the bing toolbar, craft some perhaps human looking Selenium code, and start the clicking. Over a period of a few weeks I'd be owning the top results in Bing.
- timtim 16y agoI have seen some iMacros scripts for this in the past, also for the Google toolbar. Does it help to improve ranking? I dunno.
- zizee 16y agoI think that you have identified the biggest flaw with Microsoft's approach. They are also susceptible to Google "poisoning" the well, by creating a bot-net to provide fake data to Bing.