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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.
Meanwhile, for no good reason, here's some gorgeous stats porn on how Google (and Yahoo and MSN) crawled a sample website. The animations and closeups of the trees are very cool.
Over the past 6 months or so, I've been finding a lot of link farms in my search results. Oh, irony or irony, SEOs are making search results worthless.
...It's not like google invented internet advertising.
Banner ads were taking the same path. If anything, we should thank google for making internet advertising less intrusive.
...then eventually the spam sites will actually contain the information you were looking for.