On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:32:28 +0530, Vickram Crishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apologies if you've seen this one before, but... > > bring up Google's search page, type 'bastards' and click on I'm > Feeling Lucky...
Hi, SCO has snatched the crown from Microsoft as open source evangelist's punching bag. It was hilarious to know that conspiracy theorists on this list were spinning stories about google manipulating the results. As any technology google's page ranking mechanism has it's flaws. When many people link to a webpage like this <a href=www.sco.com> bastards </a> the rank for sco.com for the keywords bastards goes up. This is known as a "google bomb" This will happen when many bloggers do this kinds of links. Just goes to show the "power of blogging". more info here (thanks google :D) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/googlebombs.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1868395.stm --> Vinayak Hegde -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
