March 29, 2002
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Google hiccup? In a Google search for "salvia divinorum" (a psychoactive drug), why the devil is the first result a link to a company that sells biofeedback devices? It smells like a paid position, but I thought Google was above that...
posted by zerolucid (8 comments total)

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meta NAME="keywords" CONTENT="mind machines, relaxation, proteus, audiostrobe, thoughtstream, thought stream, entrainment, binaural beats, biofeedback, consciousness, salvia divinorum, psychedelics, meditation"

So there you go.
posted by Su at 5:58 PM on March 29, 2002


At the bottom of the page, in black text matching background, is this:

dmt, ayahuasca, peyote, salvia divinorum, raves, rave, ravers, drum and bass, trance, psychedelics, psychedelic trance, jungle, techno, dj gear, trip, acid, lsd, hallucinogens, hallucinations, psilocybin, mescaline, huichol, mushrooms, soma, mycology, ethnobotany, san pedro, trichocereus, sacha runa, glow sticks, glosticks, glostix, ketamine, marijuana, deep house, dimethyltryptamine, phenethylamines, huichol yarn paintings, cyanescens, cubensis, analog synth synthesizer, thoughtstream, thought stream
posted by planetkyoto at 6:00 PM on March 29, 2002


I learn something new everyday. zerolucid, two words: Daniel Siebert.
posted by y2karl at 6:03 PM on March 29, 2002


This post sucks. The previous statement is false.
posted by bloggboy at 6:05 PM on March 29, 2002


Su: Google ignores META tags. And I thought it was more too sophisticated to be fooled by the black-on-black stuff. I think there's more to it than that. Some sort of Google bomb?
posted by jpoulos at 6:07 PM on March 29, 2002


It's just a search engine - get over it.
posted by adam at 6:20 PM on March 29, 2002


Google cache of that page says: These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: salvia divinorum. So 'Google bomb' is a definite possibility. So the terms salvia divinorum were added to the page after Google last crawled it.
posted by xiffix at 6:25 PM on March 29, 2002


How could it be too sophisticated to be fooled by black-on-black? It reads the content of the page, and that's the content of the page. If it said "salvia divinorum, salvia divinorum, salvia divinorum, salvia divinorum" that would be one thing, but it doesn't.

Did you find what you were looking for anyhow?
posted by barkingmoose at 6:25 PM on March 29, 2002


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