This is dumb for so many reasons. "Manually rank your site".. I don't think there's even a remote possibility for that in such a distributed system. "Redirect s

This is dumb for so many reasons. "Manually rank your site".. I don't think there's even a remote possibility for that in such a distributed system. "Redirect searches"... apart from the obvious unfeasibilty, it would take a few hours (maybe minutes) for people to start noticing and that will hit the blogosphere/twitter's fan. You won't get your comission as bloggers/twitterers won't rest until your affiliate account is locked, closed, banned and server that it was on been exploded for safety. "... let it last for a few months" Yeah, that'll happen. Don't forget that chances are the guy or team that does the recommendations from the article would be sued for lost profits for sure. The author talks from a standpoint where he changed a code on a small-sized project where there's no real oversight or distribution, so that it's actually technically possible to modify code to do extremely questionable action and get away with it. That won't work in huge company like Yahoo. I really hope this article was tongue-in-cheek.