Wednesday, October 2, 2002

Well, so much for talking about Google hacks. They just downgraded my weblog's PageRank.  Personally, I think the two are related (FWIW, I thought it would be a good thing to make it easy to allow people to get RSS feeds off of Google News pages and add Google search to their site.  I guess not).  My traffic, subscriptions, and linkage has never been better.  Many community measures put my site in the top 15 weblogs.  Human intervention in the PageRank for my site is obviously (to me based on the data) what happened.  This is a warning to everyone else that likes Google:  make sure you don't piss Google off or they will mess with you too.  [John Robb's Radio Weblog] How in the world can someone think that a person at Google would intervene and change the PageRank because of a couple of Google hacks? My mind boggles... There have been plenty of posts about changes in PageRank's of various sites. It seems that Google is downgrading the importance of a link on a blog which I think is a good thing overall. 9:17:08 AM

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