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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. 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".

  2. 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.
    --
    My grandmother used anecdotal evidence all the time, and she lived to be 120 years old.