Stanford Daily Removes Paid Links

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In April, I wrote about how Stanford University's student newspaper and many other student papers were selling offtopic links to advertisers almost certainly trying to increase their search rankings. Blake Ross came across the situation this week and noted it on his blog. In a new twist, he seems to have also found WordPress-like doorway page spam, as well. The Stanford Daily and search spam from Silicon Beat has fresh comments from the Stanford Daily, with them saying they'd review the situation. That review seems to have happened, as Ross's blog notes the ads appear to have been removed. My...

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