neuron - 2:44 pm on Feb 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

So, I guess they need to add a bunch of legitimate sites to the network, add google, and msn, yahoo, and ebay, and amazon, and maybe a few thousand others from dmoz and the yahoo directory.

Since the script itself can't be read by engines, only the resultant html, how would the engines know who was a participant and who was an innocent?

The only way I can see that they could kick this bucket over is to not count links that are only found one time and not on a subsequent visit, but then the script could also be made to recognize the bots and feed them the same links on x number of subsequent visits.

Me thinks the announcement of the death of random linking pools may at this point be a bit premature.