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Comments (6)
Works in Holland. Pretty weird especcially with Hyves being the biggest Dutch social network...
Di 20 jan 2009, 21:38
This is definitely very weird! But it seems to work here in the Netherlands as well.
Maby the Google engineers had a laugh about Danny Sullivan's piece "The Google Hyve Mind" ;)
http://searchengineland.com/the-google-hive-mind-14832
Let's see how long it takes for Google to shut this down :)
Di 20 jan 2009, 21:46
Maybe they're just monitoring for which domains toolbar-PR are requested for hyves-subdomains too see if they still sell links :P
Di 20 jan 2009, 22:27
Is this linkbait Search Cowboys did themselves? :)
Wo 21 jan 2009, 00:30
It works in italy too
Wo 21 jan 2009, 00:44
Works in Holland also.
Super.
Ton van Houten
Wo 21 jan 2009, 13:20