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Google/Matt Cutts responds to Digg "Hoax"
e-consultancy.com — The SEO community was the victim of an interesting hoax this week when StartupEarth claimed that Google was about to punish sites that relied on social bookmarking to build links. Matt Cutts and other Google employees quickly explained that the rumours were false but the issue raised some interesting points.
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- allenk77, on 03/20/2008, -1/+0Interesting stuff, trying to control the whole internet huh?
- WhoreFreak, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1The original "hoax" post wasn't confirmed as a hoax by google, they just said "don't worry about it"...
how it started --> http://startupearth.com/2008/03/07/google-to-punis ...
It's e-consultancy that cited the google response on both google's webmaster help, and on sphinn who injected the word "hoax" for their own article. At no point did a google employee call it a hoax. Their response was very... diplomatic.- yayintertubes, on 03/20/2008, -0/+0Hence the quotation marks around "hoax". I'd call google's response more evasive than diplomatic, but whether the whole thing's true or not, it's got people talking about the impact of social bookmarking on pagerank. I personally don't buy it, but it's a great story.
Direct link to John Mu's response...
http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_He ...
- yayintertubes, on 03/20/2008, -0/+0Hence the quotation marks around "hoax". I'd call google's response more evasive than diplomatic, but whether the whole thing's true or not, it's got people talking about the impact of social bookmarking on pagerank. I personally don't buy it, but it's a great story.
- pumpedvideo, on 03/20/2008, -0/+3I hope it become true..then we won't see spam here in digg no more
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