http://www.metafilter.com/32098/thecyclescom/ Comments on MetaFilter post thecycles.com Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:42:50 -0800 Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:42:50 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/32098/thecyclescom <a href="http://keithdevens.com/weblog/archive/2004/Mar/27/thecycles.com" title="It's like a big content farm. They suck in content from everywhere they can find and manage to get high Google rankings for a surprising number of searches. They use tricks like putting keywords in fake subdomains... and it's all automated. I assume their business model is 'Get a high ranking on as many Google searches as we can and hope that people click on our advertisements when they come to our page.' They're trying to make money by reproducing everyone else's content while providing ZERO extra value.... - Keith Devens">Thecycles.com is evil and must be stopped.</a> The proper comeuppance for a bogus content aggregator which inflates its own pagerank while spamming referrer logs? <a href="http://thecycles.com/" title="View thecycles.com without any subdomain, and you see the one page they've managed to link for that specific string. Haw haw!">It shoots itself in the foot with its own aggregator.</a> post:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.32098 Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:08:44 -0800 brownpau evil spam stupid http://www.metafilter.com/32098/thecyclescom#646521 If you'd like to complain to their advertising suppliers, try <a href="https://www.google.com/adsense/contact">here</a> and <a href="http://www.myaffiliateprogram.com/contactus.asp">here</a>. comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.32098-646521 Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:42:50 -0800 VulcanMike http://www.metafilter.com/32098/thecyclescom#646535 Aren't we just feeding the demon with linking it here? comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.32098-646535 Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:56:10 -0800 plemeljr http://www.metafilter.com/32098/thecyclescom#646773 I contacted Google a few weeks ago, explaining the problem and asking that they remove all pages on thecycles.com from their index. I haven't seen it come up in any search results in the past week, but maybe I've just been searching for things that aren't on their site. comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.32098-646773 Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:05:40 -0800 waldo http://www.metafilter.com/32098/thecyclescom#646937 That's one of the funniest things i have seen in awhile. comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.32098-646937 Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:24:08 -0800 ph00dz