On 20/11/2012 19:09, wrote:
In article ,
Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_Shaney

Thanks for the reference; I knew that automated trolls existed,
but didn't know that history.

In this case it is link spam for a footwear product. The nonsense text
is an attempt to fool spam detection algorithms.

That puzzles me. Is it reader-specific and how does it work?
Now you point it out, and I can see what, but I can't think of
many people insane enough to want to follow the links in such
a thing. Of course, I regard most of the human race as insane,
especially when it comes to sending text messages on a numeric
keypad and other such abuses of hand-held computers.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.


It isn't intended for humans to read; it is aimed at the Google bots
that roam websites and forums. The more links it finds to a particular
site the higher the page ranking it gives the site in search results; so
more chance of someone searching for product X on Google getting
presented with a link to the spam page.