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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Climb to the Stars - Latest Comments in Google Bombing</title><link>http://ctts.disqus.com/</link><description></description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2002 23:58:00 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Google Bombing</title><link>http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2002/03/21/google-bombing/#comment-1771184</link><description>Google Bombing works only if you are trusted by your peers (unless you &lt;br&gt;have money and can do what Scientology (and others I'm sure) do [1] aka &lt;br&gt;simulation of peer approval).&lt;br&gt; Google ranking is based on the assumption that every author will _only_ &lt;br&gt;link to valuable information. Some kind of a democratic ranking, in a way.&lt;br&gt; Hence, an author can abuse once or twice the Google ranking, but after &lt;br&gt;that, readers-peers won't trust him (aka link to you) anymore et voilà , no &lt;br&gt;more easy google bombing via weblogs for that particular author.&lt;br&gt; [1] &lt;a href="http://www.operatingthetan.com/google/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.operatingthetan.com/google/&lt;/a&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Bob the Builder</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2002 23:58:00 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>