what I think is also important is that the bots are then contributing to the trending itself, and eliminating other legitimate topics from trends.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:25 AM, TjL <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Doug Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > In your experience, do trending bots have a disproportionate > > participation in the search results for trending topics? Have you done > > any analysis like that? > > I'm not Chad :-) but if you click on any of the Trending Topics and > watch for any length of time you'll see scads of trending topic bots > popping up. > > I think the most I counted at one point was like 12 out of the top 20 > results. > > It's insane. > > TjL >
