This a brief, but pressing, alert.
Useless Knowledge.com is using a dirty trick to get their "news stories", which are anything but, to the top of Google News displays.
They refer to him as "John F. Kerry"....
Take a look at this
crap and this
dreck and consider for one second that GoogleNews currently mentions John Kerry once right now....under the name "John F. Kerry" and these are the
top 2 posts.
We've got to do something about this methinks.
#1: If you have a blog or website that links to GoogleNews searches.....by all means, start writing pieces that refer to "John F. Kerry" postehaste. This is a loophole that is being used against us.
#2: Another tactic would be to find websites and blogs that link to GoogleNews and flood the field with references to John F. Kerry.
#3: One other idea would be to write to GoogleNews and to news organizations and point out this loophole. If Yahoo and Reuters and CNN made a few references to "John F. Kerry" it would smack these losers into their rightful place.
#4: If you have a leftie blog and haven't submitted to dMoz, at least think about it....here's a piece that describes what I'm talking about.
#5: Markos, if you are reading this....would you consider taking aggressive steps to get dKos content more aggressively displayed in Google and Google News? I am not talking about "bombing" or cheating in any way....
just countering the tricksterism of the 'Chronwatchers' and 'Uselessknowledge' hucksters of the world. To be honest, I smell a HUGE waft of Rove here.
I am not a master of PageRank, if you are please speak forth...but goldarnit, crap like this pisses me off...and the political observer in me thinks that it has a more pervasive effect than we might think. ie. Grandpa Jim in Ohio finally learns how to use GoogleNews and clicks on John Kerry and "lo and behold!!!..."....a wheelbarrow full of absolute BULLSHIT!!
Meanwhile, we Kossacks continue to write amazing stuff that rarely, if ever, shows up on Google at all. Bummer.