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El Reg Says Google Choking on Spam Sites

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-believe-everything-you-read dept.

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.

3 of 234 comments (clear)

  1. Re:This just in! by linvir · · Score: 0, Troll
    Oooh! Ooh! Let me try!
    1. Google is really rich and can buy more shit
    2. The register is written by fags
    3. One piece of software != crisis
    4. Unfair quoting = untrustworthy source
    5. Google will learn to ID the software and block it
    6. Subterranean means not big enough to be a risk
    7. Grubby Games is a gay name
    8. El Reg? If the title is wrong how are we to trust the content?
    9. Why say that in the earnings conference? Sounds like a quick excuse
    Hmmm, I can't make it past 9. I guess I'll just have to give up on my dream of becoming the Comic Book Guy.

    It's sad though that you could take pretty much any of those posts and extract 3 quick karma points out of it easily. That must be why I've decided to stop displaying the karma/moderation system completely.

  2. Its about time! by elix3r · · Score: 1, Troll

    Web masters have been forced to go out of their way to optimize to "what Google likes" and cut out flash, ajax, and everything else that the Google bot can't crawl for waayy too long. Its about the time Google started paying the price for it.

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