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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

The Devil's Guide to Google

Google Blogoscoped has a great guide to how to become a totally evil, worm-like creature with Google's array of services in under a month. For a flavour, the first is:



1. Start a spam blog with Blogger.com*. Use Google News to send automated email alerts on any conceivable high-paying topic to your Blogger's blog-by-mail address.



It's meant to be funny, of course. None the less, there are a lot of people out there in the process or burying Google in junk, because it's quicker and more profitable than just, you know, creating good content and hoping Google will index it.

* This should really say something like "Start 1,000 spam blogs with Blogger.com". Each might only make $1 a day, but if you start a couple of thousand, it starts to add up. Also, don't forget to send out 100 million spam e-mails with links to your spam blogs! It's a profitable game and anyone can play....

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