Notices by Leon Paternoster (leonp@fosstodon.org)

@baldur ha ha, so we just didn't recognise spam? :-) Quite possible.

Could have been less of it about, perhaps? I can't remember when the concept of meta keyword stuffing started, or when search ranking position would have been seen as something that could even be gamed. Probably at the beginning... It'd be interesting to delve into its history.

@baldur I seem to remember it was simply Google providing brilliant results, and a page that was just a search box. I don't remember spam being an Alta Vista problem (doesn't mean it wasn't, of course).