Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:41:37PM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote:
>On 15 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 08:23, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > >  Or have
>> > >web crawlers changed such that this doesn't work anymore? 
>> > 
>> > I'll try that.  Thanks.
>> 
>> I wouldn't: google actively lowers your page ranking when it sees such
>> garbage.
>
>Where, exactly, did you read this (a link to some doc would be
>enightening)?  I see nothing about this in Googles documentation of Page
>Ranking.  And, google isn't the only search engine out there.  I'd think
>you'd want to try and get as much exposure as possible in as many engines
>as possible. 

That was exactly my thinking.  I knew that google didn't fall prey to
the duplicated keyword scenario but I thought it would be useful for
other search engines.

cgf

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