Search engine spam was created by people looking to gain the upper hand in the SEO race and lazy marketers that want everything on auto pilot. It exists to trick search engines into thinking that a website should have a higher ranking than it actually deserves.

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Group of Eight (http://www.go8.edu.au) is likely to be the only Australian website with Google PageRank 10. The extremely high PageRank is explained by the fact that it’s linked from the eight of the strongest Australian universities. For a while now this site has been a target of various organisations trying to get in, however this year it has been under repetitive attack of blackhat SEOs and hackers.

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