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Abhishek Bachchan Aishwarya Rai Wedding – The End

posted April 25, 2007 - 11:20am
Abhishek Bachchan Aishwarya Rai Wedding – The End

For over a week now, the Xomba site has been blasted and choked with Xombytes and Xomblurbs about this celebrity Indian couple’s wedding. I’m sure they are lovely people, but enough is enough.

Two or three of these may be informative, but the high volume and hit counts on them suggest the effort has only been to generate Google Adsense revenue. And I suspect automated click tools have been used to artificially inflate their popularity.

From time to time, we all post fun articles and blurbs about other Internet goings on, but the main focus of this site is to post and share creative writing in a variety of forms. It is not a celebrity news portal, or an ad-click generator.

While I’m not advocating censorship, I urge the Users and Guests to stop clicking, especially the gratuitous clicks (c’mon, 1000 hits an hour?) on these Abhishek Bachchan Aishwarya Rai Wedding articles that have kept them up on the top of the most popular content for a week.

Otherwise, this whole site will degenerate into a Adword tool full of a bunch of gibberish spam articles consisting of nothing but high frequency search words.



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Funny...

I like how Xomba gets the blame for what's popular. As if we wield the power to control what people want to see. People find Abhishek Bachchan interesting. So they search for it on Google and they come here. Then people get mad at the user who wrote it in the first place. That makes no sense. The clicks are all real. Idlewild makes a VERY valid point about more eyeballs on the site. If anyone out there wants a website that only displays their content then people should create their own site. Easy enough solution. So if anyone has this attitude that their content is "holier than thou" then find another site. On Xomba everyone is equal and everyone is welcome. I think some people need to read our About Us link at the bottom.

Kdaws, I agree with you, but

Kdaws, I agree with you, but the degeneration of this website started long before the articles about this wedding were posted. It began with the creation of the "xomblurb". The "creative writing" seems to have disappeared and is now replaced with "watch this or that FREE" and "guess what (insert any celebrity name here) did last night". Any desire for quality articles was abandoned when the "xomblurb" was added to the site. The only way to stop it is to get rid of it, and that seems to be highly unlikely considering there is a contest to promote this behavior.

Niven and Pournelle, "Lucifer's Hammer" has a great scene. . .

"Lucifer's Hammer" has a great scene. . . which is relevent to the comment and commenter. Wealthy Tim Hamner and his small telescope discovers the ancient comet, which plunges from the Oort Cloud for most of a million years toward a far distant faint point of light -- after the tugs of nearby stars set it in motion. It is not as large(or as dangerous) as Hale-Bopp more in the line of Hyakutake, both recently beautiful comets. Hamner misses Earth on the way in, but catches Earth on the way out. The comet was broken up a little but not enough to keep widely scattered pieces from impacting all over the Earth. One small chunk lands in the ocean west of LA, maybe a thousand miles west. One surfer wanted to catch the ultimate wave and went out maybe ten miles to wait for the wave; caught it and rode it into the wall of one of LA's taller buildings splatted like a bug. . . the wave tripped coming ashore rising high enough for 15 - 18 floors. if there had been people in the building they would have perished, but likely he was one of the only people in town, no other surfers had been drawn off shore to catch the wave. . . I borrowed this address from my Water Monsters posting on Xomba here and it is very well worth spending the time to study what Mr.Steven N Ward has animated with full physics see here; http://es.ucsc.edu/~ward/ Now the point here is that abhishek and aishwarya are milkable entities, and great! Wish we all had one that caught on like that! IT is like the surfer riding the ultimate wave. If the LA skyscraper hadn't got him the rip tide back flow to the pacific might have drowned him. This one, the surfer saw it coming . . . coming... right at him. But that wave could have ended anywhere. . . but end it would. this internet surge is like riding the wave, and fame is fleeting. Let see how they're doing in a year. how much interest!?

Lots of blurbs, lots of hits

Xomba has had lots of traffic on articles relating to Britney, Paris, Usher, etc., as rave says. I guess the difference with this wedding is that so many articles/ xomblurbs have been written about this event in a short amount of time. But, there's nothing in Xomba rules saying what people should or shouldn't write about, so there's nothing wrong with it (though I can understand how users can be frustrated with it). As for 'automated clicks,' no one except for Xomba and Google know how many clicks these articles get. I think the number of page views is legit, based on how much extra traffic Xomba is getting. The last few days Xomba seems to have averaged 150 to 200 'guests' online, whereas before the number was usually less than 50. Extra visitors to the site means extra eyeballs potentially reading non-wedding content, so I don't mind that. Maybe some of these visitors will join Xomba. More members and more traffic is good for all of us.

The comment is right ..but

too late. We had also such traffic on Britney and usher. It does indicate the interest of the present generation readers on the stars and their private life. Nothing less and nothing more.

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