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Aug

2008

This really is a bad idea - internal linking is another form of navel gazing

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When this trend spreads (and I say "when", not "if"), this will be a tax on the utility of the web that must be counterbalanced by the utility of the intervening pages. If they are really good, with lots of useful, curated data that you wouldn't easily find elsewhere, this may be an acceptable tax. In fact, they may even be beneficial, and a real way to increase the value of the site to its readers. If they are purely designed to capture additional clicks, they will be a degradation of the web's fundamental currency, much like the black hat search engine pages that construct link farms out of search engine results.
- Dennis Howlett on 2008-08-19
  This practice of internal linking is a cynical form of narcisissm driven by the greed of publishers and the laziness of journalists to look elsewhere for credible sources.
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Feb

2008

Ooooh - now that' nice. Cute feature.

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