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		omarchowdhury on May 24, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Future Internet is rip-off/black hat based Actually, no it's possible. I did "blackhat" back in 2006 and had about 500,000 pages indexed into Google. A few real queries and I saw my own site as the first few listings.

omarchowdhury on May 24, 2009 [–]

P.S. I should elaborate why I saw my own listings.

The 500,000 pages that I had indexed in Google were mostly mispellings/typo pages of the top 500,000 searched keywords in terms of volume.

So you can see statistically, it's very possible to come upon your own sites...

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