The Rise Of The Like Farm

Years ago when Google began dominating the search industry, one of the biggest challenges for the search engines was discovering link farms. As Wikipedia describes, “a link farm is any group of web sites that all hyperlink to every other site in the group”. It was also an extremely effective technique for spamming search engines and boosting placement for various keywords. Now developers have created similar sites except instead of linking to places, the site encourages users to like objects.