In a day and age of checkmark friends on some acceptance web page I realize that words and ideas may not hold the same value or power to mean something; but do we really think that we can just toss out words that in of themselves are potent and rich in meaning as if they are another marketing term.

In the mish mash of posts that followed after the news of Google’s PageRank update that saw more than a few top blogs as well as link farms see their ranking reduced Duncan Riley had his say in a post titled Google Declares Jihad on Blog Link Farms.

Now I am not a politically correct type of person to the point I think that most of it is nothing but garbage but to use a word like Jihad as part of some post about Google throwing its weight around was in my cranky opinion - stupid.

The idea of using a religious term of war as part of a descriptive headline doesn’t even come close to being in good taste considering that US soldiers and soldiers of other countries are in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting against those who would make it more than some word in a tech post headline.

I like Duncan’s writing both at TechCrunch and on his personal blog but I do think a boundary was crossed with today’s headline.

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