Need visitors? Buy them!

There is a nice article over at Wired News that shows quite well that the social news movement might run into problems sooner than later. The author hires a company to get his bogus blog into the rankings and is quite pleased with the results:

U/S had done what it promised: The company had helped me buy my way into Digg popularity, and my site traffic had gone way up -- overnight, I'd been hammered with so many hits that the diggers had to set up a mirror.

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