<World-Wide Web, information science> Repeating a word many
times in a web page, in a (usually futile) attempt to
increase its relevance ranking in a search engine's index
(to "spam" the index).
"Repeating a word over and over in a Web page (known as word
spamming) has no effect on the [page's] ranking [in the
index]." -- Altavista FAQ.
See also spamdex.
(1997-04-09)
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