How fake sites trick search engines
In several posts (for example, here and also here) I have discussed how search results contain a lot of spam these days. Seattle PI has an article, How fake sites trick search engines to hit the top, which explains how scammers are gaming the search engine algorithms to get top ranking in search results:
Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams.
With a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent Web sites that prey on consumers, making unwitting accomplices of companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
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