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Spam Sites Infesting Google Search Results

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hate-when-that-happens dept.

The Google Watchdog blog is reporting that "Spam and virus sites infesting the Google SERPs in several categories" and speculates, ...Google's own index has been hacked. The circumvention of a guideline normally picked up by the Googlebot quickly is worrisome. The fact that none of the sites have real content and don't appear to even be hosted anywhere is even more scary. How did millions of sites get indexed if they don't exist?

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  1. It's the Rand Corporation by OptimusPaul · · Score: 3, Funny

    in conjunction with the saucer people under the supervision of the reverse vampires are forcing our parents to go to bed early in a fiendish plot to eliminate the meal of dinner. We're through the looking glass, here, people...

  2. Google index hacked? by InvisblePinkUnicorn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hacking of Google databases might explain why Google Translator used to translate the Russian name for "Ivan the Terrible" as "Abraham Lincoln".

  3. They are having a sale on tinfoil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    You should pick some up.

  4. Re:Not hosted anywhere? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those of us on Internet 3.0, Quantum Edition, have this problem all the time. Quoogle indexes sites without collapsing their wave functions. When you click on a link, the waveform collapses and the server may or may not exist. Web spiders are therefore being replaced by cats.

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  5. Simple way to eliminate pharmaceutical spam by Alzheimers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Free universal health care

  6. Re:SEOs by colourmyeyes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apparently it's something more subtle than what one could think of in few mins on Slashdot
    Blasphemy! In my relatively short time lurking on Slashdot, I've seen nearly all the world's problems, including hideously complicated questions of physics, SOLVED in posts no more than a few paragraphs long.

    It's amazing, really.
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    My grandmother used anecdotal evidence all the time, and she lived to be 120 years old.
  7. Where do all the calculators go when they die? by Scrameustache · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wouldn't have thought /. would have too many people believing in responses from machines that don't exist. Were getting phantom pings from the ghosts of the still-smoldering servers we slashdotted in our folly!
    I'm scared...
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    You can't take the sky from me...

  8. Re:What hijacked phrases? Not seeing this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    (It's likely something is inserting "site:*.cn" into the article author's searches...)

  9. Re:What is up with images? They being abused too? by Daniel+Spiewak · · Score: 2, Funny

    What does a car name have to do with a naked chick with a Nokia phone? Mud wrestlers? Homer Simpson? Paris Hilton?
    ...as the number of people searching for "Open Manta" unexpectedly jumps by a factor of 8000x.