El Reg Says Google Choking on Spam Sites

Grubby Games writes "The Register is reporting that Google is full, and in trouble." From the article: "Recently, we featured a software tool that can create 100 Blogger weblogs in 24 minutes, called Blog Mass Installer. A subterranean industry of sites providing 'private label articles,' or PLAs exists to flesh out 'content' for these freshly minted sites. And as a result, legitimate sites are often caught in the cross fire. But the new algorithms may not be solely to blame. Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt has hinted at another reason for the recent chaos. In Google's earnings conference call last month, Schmidt was frank about the extent of the problem. 'Those machines are full,' he said. 'We have a huge machine crisis.'" James Robertson points out that's a fairly selective bit of quoting.

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Adsense is to blame

[wackysootroom]

In creating adsense, google opened the floodgates for spammers who do not want to create good content. In fact, there are even people who copy tons of content from wikipedia and throw up adsense on the top and sides of the pages.

There are people who are literally making $10,000 or more per month just putting up junk content sites that are auto generated for the purpose of creating adsense revenue.

Don't get me wrong, I think adsense is a good thing, but Google's allowance of spam sites is giving adsense a bad name.