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by Kofi Sarfo 9. July 2009 16:12

From what we can make out this appears to be a fictitious SEO contest. What's interesting is the digital grafitti it spawned. We're using Kamus.net to try and make sense of it during another brief distraction.

Late last year a web solutions company offered cash prizes to whomever was able to gain the highest position on Google for a specific search term. What surprised me is that the winner had only a handful of links to the winning entry page. Cue hurried attempt at Jerry Springer style closing remarks. It's great that the web opens up possibilities for someone to earn more in a few months via an SEO competion than, say, the typical annual salary according to GDP per capita figures - I thought it might be useful to highlight this figure against that for the country in which I was born - but the problem I suppose is the spam it encourages. Blog post comments are an obvious target, for example.

Notes:

The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
The paper presented to the Computer Science Department, Stanford University. This doesn't appear to have happened before 1997 at the earliest, demonstrating the beauty of scaleability in a nicely recursive kinda way.

How Bloggers Game Google
Ah, the great democracy of the web at work. Plus rant. Plus explanation.

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