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As someone who has suffered a tidal wave of spam and some other hack attempts the problem isn't particuarly with the average Chinese internaut but with US citizens hiding behind lax Chinese ISPs.

Chinanet Henan Province and Chinatelecom are notorious homes to US based spammers. I've written a brief paper on the subject here

http://www.abcseo.com/papers/referrer-spam.htm

Ok I've moved a bit off the topic of hacking attemps - but hacking/spamming are two sides of the same coin. Personally I've refrained from banning the whole of China when the problem seems to be some rogue individuals and ISPs.

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Do /. editors accept these frequent puffs for SEO sites for money I wonder?

Source: Google's Sneaky Redirect

The big problem for any new entrant, including OSS, is that the search companies are busy getting patents on a lot of obvious and not so obvious search technology.

I think it is a bit of a meme for people who are doing something wrong. The original "Google Sandbox" idea was that overly optimized new sites were sandboxed not just everyday personal sites. I've launched a number of sites in the last 6 months and most show up in Google's index within a couple of days and stay there. They may not always rank as high as I would like but they are not sandboxed.

Now a lot of people have heard about the "sandbox" without bothering to read the original theory (sounds familiar huh?) and are using it as an excuse for why they are doing badly in Google. Apart from one or two examples most of the site owners I've seen complaining about the Sandbox are doing stuff wrong - like no inbound-links to their site.

Disclaimer: the author is a mate of mine.

They certainly have made exceptions. If you are a small website using extensive cloaking, like the clients of TrafficPower you risk getting banned whereas if you are Microsoft, one of the top sites on the Web, you risk nothing but public ire.