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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?

3 of 207 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Simple way to eliminate pharmaceutical spam by computersareevil · · Score: 0, Troll

    I presume you will personally pay for it all? TANSTAAFL, idiot.

  2. Imagine that! by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 0, Troll

    > It appears that the faked sites are redirecting the Googlebot to a location where content can
    > be indexed, while at the same time recognizing normal users and redirecting them to a site
    > that includes the malware mentioned earlier. This is an obvious violation of Google's
    > guidelines, but the spammers have found ways to circumvent the rule and hide it from the Googlebot.

    Huh. What do you know about that? Who'd've thunk Google's guidline would be disobeyed by spammers, given how well anti-handgun laws make criminals think twice before using a handgun in a crime.

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  3. Re:What hijacked phrases? Not seeing this. by TeHCrAzY · · Score: 0, Troll

    http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Bayesian+networks+and+decision+graphs+Fenn+rapidshare&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enAU222AU222/

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