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I posted something on my other blog and tagged it with iPhone and Apple following the wake of the iPhone 2.0 announcement. The article itself was about possible market appeal of Apple products to scientific community, which might be integrated with the iPhone to provide high quality and high speed scientific computing on mobile devices.

My blog usually gets about 6 or 10 hits a day, 20 or 30 at the most. However, since I've posted about the iPhone I've been getting 400 to 500 hits a day... This is very peculiar, and perhaps reveals the vulnerability of the net based newsreadership... Any quack site can come up with bunch of popular terms and tag their advertisements with those terms... Flooding popular inventory services in the process. Though I guess google's method of counting links to a specific website when determining its query might prove impervious to such methods, what if the spammers create a 'microcosm' of websites where they link to each other centering on certain automatically retrieved popular tags?