It's not illegal, but it's SEO gone bad. Companies such as Quixtar are
> using Google-bombing, link farms and Web spam pages to place positive
> sites in the top search results -- which pushes the negative ones > down.
Yeah, and there may be no laws against it, but if it's done on a large enough basis you can bet they'll get sued.
Quixtar's slimy anyhow ... it doesn't surprise me that they were used as the example in the quoted article.
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