There's a website a friend pointed out to me. It's called c o n s e r v o p e d i a, only without the spaces and with a .com at the end. It exemplifies so much in the world that is wrong. For example, here's the picture on the page entitled "Liberal":
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is a just a bit annoying.
Now, I don't mention this to bash that site (though I hate it), I mention it because it exemplifies a problem of sorts with the Internet. The problem is this: if I want to give props to a site, I can do so in a heartbeat by linking to it. A fine example of this was Google Bombing, while it lasted. On the other hand, if a website blows and I feel that it is making the world a worse place, all I can do is put spaces in its name and hope it becomes obscure enough to go away (which this one is not about to do).
I imagine there are some rather contentious issues regarding an internet where websites can be voted up and down on a grander scale than digg, but really, if something is evil and doing harm and disservice to the world, there should be a way to make it more obscure than the search engine's algorithm. Similarly, if a website is doing illegal stuff, we should be able to get rid of it quickly and without a lot of hassle (think Internet scam sites).
Here's a quote about liberals, from "The Trustworthy Encyclopedia":
A Liberal is a believer in many of the following political positions:
* denial of inherent gender differences, leading to things such as allowing men and women to have the same jobs in the military (while quietly holding them to different standards)
* taxpayer-funded abortion
* same-sex marriage
* support of affirmative action
* support of political correctness [1]
* censorship of prayer in classrooms
* compelled taxpayer funding of government schools for nearly all ages
* government-controlled medical care
* labor unions
* elimination of abstinence-only program funding [2]
* income redistribution, usually through progressive taxation
* a "living Constitution" that is reinterpreted rather than an unchanging Constitution as written
* support for gun control
* government programs to rehabilitate criminals
* environmentalism [3]
* disarmament treaties
* globalism
* opposition to a strong American foreign policy [4]
* support of obscenity and pornography as a First Amendment right[5]
* opposition to full private property rights[6]
* limit conservative talk radio by reinstating the Fairness Doctrine
Can't you still game the algorithm by linking to it with a different name in the tag? such as {a href="conservopedia.com"}A BUNCH OF HARE-BRAINED IDIOTS{/a}?
I prefer uncyclopedia.com, but that's just me.
From what I understand, that will bring negative attention to it, but the biggest factor in rankings has more to do with the ratio of inbound links to outbound links, so inbounding it will only do it good in the end...
Something else I just learned about is the nofollow link attribute, which allows you to link to a website, but to inform search engines not to give any weight to that link. Interesting concept, and it seems like search engines are using this tag.
I'll add though that you still can't bury a site...
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