I thought this was interesting. This came up in my Google alerts. Looks like someone scrapping all of the places on DP where URLs were posted. Looks like it's classifying them all as providers of paid links. http:// www. realranker. com/orient/vegas/paid.txt (remove the spaces) In case they move the file heres a sample of it. the file is huge. www.sendmoneytransfer.com/@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299998 www.winn-and-sims.com/2004/11/winn-and-sims-anonymously-slanders-me.html@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299993 www.zoomcities.com@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299993 www.auctionadvice.com/getting_started/ebay-registration.php@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299953 www.yourfunnymedia.com@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299953 www.cambodiaxp.com/forum/@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299953 www.auctionadvice.com/@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299950 www.digitalpointing.com@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299950 www.jerlene.net@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299950 www.yourfunnymedia.com@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299950 www.cambodiaxp.com/forum/@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299950 www.alivedirectory.com/blog@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299950 www.alivedirectory.com@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299950 www.digitalpointing.com@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299950 www.jerlene.net@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299950 www.auction-registration.com/@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299936 blog.aplus.net/@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299936 carrospt.blogspot.com/@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299936 blog.aplus.net/@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299936 carrospt.blogspot.com/@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299936 www.elegantdirectory.com/blog@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299936 www.highstuff.com@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299936 www.affiliateuniverse.info@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299936 www.business-directory-northeast.co.uk@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299936 blog.aplus.net/@#@http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=299936 Code (markup):
Hello , I am the programmer who did that website, and yes you are very fxxx right. I am classffing the websites , and not only from digitalpoint but from all the web. 1. We are creating a system more like pagerank , to give each website a rank. 2. the tool will also alert if a website was selling backlinks in buy/sell area from digitalpoint/sitepoint , or was participating in massive web directory submission , or in link farms etc. *** UPDATE there were much more files like that marking 'paid websites' , so i said to remove them so nobody else can use my database. I worked a few weeks to get that data (crawling the whole dp took almost half of day,etc) Anyway you can still watch the cache of that file for a few more days here: http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cach...id.txt+site:realranker.com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5