Link-famring
2011-08-23 14:29:13.817333+00 by
Dan Lyke
2 comments
The first Google result for "chili recipe" claims:
This is the best chili recipe you'll ever make. It was the blue
ribbon winner at a chili cook-off, garnering a prize worth $20,000
according the the recipe book it came from.
It, of course, specifies Hunts™ tomato sauce and Louisiana™ hot sauce. Except that whoever retyped this didn't bother capitalizing or adding the trademark symbols
Is this what the net has become? Pirating manufacturer's recipes from hard-copy into link-baiting pseudo-blogs in an effort to sell more ads to other link-farming spammers?
Sigh.
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#Comment Re: made: 2011-08-23 14:33:53.31768+00 by:
petronius
Is this what the net has become? Pirating manufacturer's recipes from hard-copy into link-baiting pseudo-blogs in an effort to sell more ads to other link-farming spammers?
You gotta problem with that? BTW, how was the chili?
#Comment Re: made: 2011-08-23 15:53:37.249431+00 by:
ebradway
As for the Hunt's tomatoes... Chili is one of those dishes that requires some
plebian ingredients. Make it too gourmet and it's just not chili any more.
But you are right in a sense. But recipes are a curious form on information. They
are all text, typically very short. They are structured in a common manner, so
easily machine-parsed. They can be generic or specific (as you noted). And they
are probably one of the top search items.