Who wouldn’t enjoy Rand (or for that matter, any SEM professional) posting a series of myspace-esque self portraits? Tiny problem though… I’d love to give feedback on the posts. There’s even a mechanism for doing so with the little “Do you like this post? Yes No” links in the feed. Unfortunately, clicking them turns up [...]
DaveN hints at the technique today. If you want to see exactly what sorts of spamming he’s talking about with other sites search pages, some simple Google searches will show you. (You’ll always need to show omitted results when manually typing in these searches.) site:weather.com inurl:search/partner site:search.orange.co.uk inurl:all?q= Of course, I tend to trust what DaveN puts out… if [...]
It’s rare that I get personally frustrated by cloaking. After all, I expect those types of shenanigans from Web -2.0 companies like the New York Times. But Experts Exchange? Holy crap, do they expect to not just frustrate people by literally scrambling the text of answers until you register? An screenshot of scrambling shenanigans (Actual URL): See how [...]