Bottom-of-page drivel

[Theo Markettos]

Just did a search in the hard drive category, and had this in small text at
the bottom of the results page (just above the links to all the other eBay
country sites):

> Does your profession require that you work with computers? Or are you just
> looking for a cheap computer to be used at home? In both cases you can
> expect to find relevant products regarding your query for SATA IDE, 500gb,
> Warranty or Maxtor 120gb on the virtual shelves of eBay.co.uk! The well
> structured category "Computing" offers you countless low-priced offers to
> keywords like Hitachi, Barracuda, VAT and Maxtor External. The item
> descriptions provide users with convenient tips and useful information about
> Seagate External, USB2, 250gb or External HDD. This way you will be able to
> obtain a detailed picture of products like 80GB, 160gb, 40GB and 320gb. You
> are currently browsing through the category "Computing". Make use of the
> opportunity to compare the different products. If you are in urgent need of
> a specific product for example Cooling, 20GB, formatted, 24HR, SENT, policy,
> RPM, 10K, Included, 7200rpm, Others or Unlike we suggest you use the "Buy It
> Now" option that gives you the opportunity to purchase your favourite item
> immediately!

WTF? Is this Google-bait, or something else? It's definitely an eBay
thing, not part of someone's listing.

Theo

[Mike]

In message <Niv*55...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>
at 01:44:07 on Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Theo Markettos
<theom...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote

It's called keyword spamming.
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Mike News

[Humbug]

And, indeed, the kind of practice which will prevent webpages from
being indexed on Google.

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Humbug