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Sunday, May 27, 2007

A new way to game Google

A recently Google launched Trends. Trends are the searches that are showing big spikes. It is different than Zeitgeist which just shows the most popular searches. They are retiring Zeitgeist for Trends and Hot Trends.

Today I checked my referral logs and I noticed that my recent post about the Stanford Impostor, Azia Kim got a lot of hits from Hot Trends. I did not expect to get 50 extra hits just because of this post.

Since there is a list of Hot Trends every day, could I boost my hits by just going to this list and writing something? How would that effect the Hot Trends. This would be more important if I was selling ads.

Labels: Azia Kim, google, google bomb, hot trends, impostor, search, Stanford

- Rich, 3:17 AM

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Getting Jobbed

I saw this article about how Google is going through its job applications. They are asking the people who apply now to fill out a survey. I wonder if someone can Google Bomb the survey. If it takes 15 people to rig the survey, do you have to split the job between all of them.

I will admit that I am not happy about the way Google hires. I am from the tribe of people who did not do well at school. I would like to think that I am a good employee now. I know I have worked with good people who have not had the best grades. I am worried that Google is going to leave good talent on the table and set an example for other companies. I just wonder how it will effect the future of high tech hiring.

Labels: google, google bomb, hiring, job, job applcation

- Rich, 10:00 PM

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