Wordpress banned by Google
 

This just got posted on Slashdot. Apparently Wordpress was spamming google with hidden links to high paying adsense pages. And those fuckers ask you to donate on their website. I wouldn't care but I just started using Wordpress :mad:

link?

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Here's a story about it: http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/03/30/wordpres.shtml

Wow... Glad I haven't been using Wordpress. It was my 2nd choice. :X

http://www.google.com/search?num=100...ordp ress.org

someone pressed a button ;)

wow, a google rep actually posted in the thread

If you do View>Page Style>No Style with Firefox you can see the links on their page. It looks the code is still there but the linking pages have been removed. I wonder how many other sites are doing this.

if you read the article, your title is misleading
Only the hidden links have been removed, not WordPress per se nor it's users.

lol, ? ? wordpress.org is the one being banned, not the persons using wordpress


http://www.threadwatch.org/node/2106

Ouch how did they think they were not going to get caught and wordpress is a pretty decent program

Shitfaggers.

wordpress.org = PR0

hmm I've a wordpress blog :/

Sorry, no information is available for the URL wordpress.org

Actually, what exactly did he do that was wrong and justify banning? Violate the "open source mantra"?

Because people use his free software that contains linkbacks he has to stop trying to make cash?

Mabye I missed the real reason.

Its only the wordpress.org domain, not blogs using wordpress

I see that disappearing ;)

posted a ton of articles with spam keywords in them on an PR8 to get money from adsense

FUCK!!!!
Do you realize how much fucking time I spent tweaking my blog and getting it just right, and I've been trying to post something new every day (sure I miss days).. but, FUCK!

20 hits a day now.. GONE!

Dude. Read it fully.

It's ONLY the wordpress dude's domain.

NOT wordpress blogs.

Me too. whew.

I don't.
Just because wordpress.org returns no results in a search doesn't mean it got deleted.

Try this search query

Surprised by the number of results?

Again, unless the articles were machine generated, how is that contrary to google?

well slashdot referred to it as "inserting hidden links to junk content"

does this mean blogging is dead?

yes. blogging is dead. tell all your friends,there's no money in blogs. stop now.

They got banned, every retard can see this

Exactly, then we will be the only ones left! :thumbsup :thumbsup

haha cool

Ok, got it now

Host your blog with us..... :)

Google dont even know were here!! lol

See sig

I noticed that earlier today and wondered what the heck was going on.

...thanks for pointing that out, brains !!
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april fool?

Wow, this is the first thread I've started that has stayed on the front page for more than 15 minutes :1orglaugh