BoingBoing just pointed out a nice piece about Grant Shapps, UK Conservative Party Co-Chair and Member of Parliament for Welwyn Hatfield. The Conservative Party has fallen under scrutiny for being too cozy with Google and their practices this year but this seems to offset that considerably.
Shapps runs HowToCorp, one of those ubiquitous link farm services that promises to create heady amounts of Google juice for folks who are trying to squat on a topic like, say, “golf.”
The service essentially scrapes the web for related content, runs it through a thesaurus, and posts thousands of copies everywhere. The resulting pages, containing lines like “A free of charge golf swing lesson appears a very little as well superior to be accurate” are, in theory, supposed to increase your position in Google because, Why? Shit floats.
From the Guardian:
The Labour Party is calling for further investigation. You can read quite a bit about the scam here, but I find it wonderful that the people are finally getting the tech-savvy politicians they deserve. Who knows? Maybe it could be @horse_ebooks for President in 2016?