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The Real Nick W writes “Wordpress, an incredibly popular Open Source Blogging system was found to be spamming google by inserting hidden links to junk content on high paying Adsense keywords such as mesothelioma and debt consolidation. Following Threadwatch picking up the story an anonymous Google rep appeared in the original thread admonishing bloggers not to use sneaky tactics to rank highly for “duplicate content” such as the 100,000 hidden articles on the Wordpress site. The articles have now dissapeared from Google and it remains to be seen whether Google will ban Wordpress outright as they tend to do when SEO’s and web dev’s pull these kinds of stunts.”

Bad move for Wordpress and this makes me also kind of mad, but that’s life. I do want to debate the fact that Open Source implies that you are not out there to make money, but obviously Wordpress doesn’t seem to stay true with that. I am still a full supporter of Wordpress, but I think that Wordpress needs to take a better angle with this.

If you have GMail, you will notice recently, that 50 invitations were added to your account. There is a reason behind this. Google is gearing up for the full launch of Google Mail. They have spent extensive amounts of time with this project and has become very powerful. I currently use gmail for all of my e-mail needs because of its power. I recommend that when GMail launches and goes public, that everyone get an account.

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