by Ash » Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:49 pm
It's interesting, Googling phrases from this post shows that it's been made in hundreds of web fora on a huge range of topics. Your theory is good, Ernie -- a security probe of some sort. I wonder if it's also a way of link-baiting. If a particular bit of text is reproduced on huge numbers of websites, perhaps Google thinks it's important, and therefore somehow it becomes valuable? In any case, it's probably best to delete the (obviously spammy) thread.
-Ash.
It's interesting, Googling phrases from this post shows that it's been made in hundreds of web fora on a huge range of topics. Your theory is good, Ernie -- a security probe of some sort. I wonder if it's also a way of link-baiting. If a particular bit of text is reproduced on huge numbers of websites, perhaps Google thinks it's important, and therefore somehow it becomes valuable? In any case, it's probably best to delete the (obviously spammy) thread.
-Ash.