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Greg Ewing wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Fredrik Lundh wrote:
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<pre wrap="">fwiw, the first google hit for "autodict" appears to be part of someone's
link farm
At this website we have assistance with autodict. In addition to
information for autodict we also have the best web sites concerning
dictionary, non profit and new york.
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Hmmm, looks like some sort of bot that takes the words in
your search and stuffs them into its response. I wonder
if they realise how silly the results end up sounding?
I've seen these sorts of things before, but I haven't
quite figured out yet how they manage to get into Google's
database if they're auto-generated. Anyone have any clues
what goes on?</pre>
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I guess the question is, how would google know *not* to index them ?
As soon as they are linked to (or more likely they re-use an expired
domain name that is already in the google database) they will be
indexed. They may be obviously autogenerated to a human, but it's a lot
harder for a computer to tell.<br>
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It seems that google indexes sites of dubious value - but gives them a
low pagerank. This means they do appear in results, but only if there
is nothing more relevant available.<br>
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All the best,<br>
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Michael Foord<br>
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