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The perils of semantic markup

8th December 2002

Phil Ringnalda: The perils of good semantic markup. A throwaway comment by a blogger about some trashy manufactured band results in his (properly marked up) site ending ranked higher by Google than the official band’s site for searches on their name. This results in a barrage of moronic fan comments and apparently an even bigger barrage of moronic fan email.

This is The perils of semantic markup by Simon Willison, posted on 8th December 2002.

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