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Google Blocks co.cc From Search Results
tekgoblin writes "Google has taken the attack on malware into its own hands today as it blocks the entire co.cc subdomain. The block removed about 11 million results from the Google search index which should dramatically clean up much malware in search results."
Wasn't this posted a few days ago?
That wouldn't be cool.
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Thats a bit harsh isn't it. I'm sure there is at least one legitimate .co.cc domain
Google blocks cock from search results.
Now, please do the same for anything on that ripoffreport extortion site. Ooh, and anything ending in ehow.com or answers.yahoo.com or chacha.com or the other endless streams of bullshit content farm crapfests. Those we actually run into all the time, via google. I don't know when the fuck the last time was I ran into a co.cc link of any kind, via google. Probably never.
When it comes to the justice system, some people say that it's better to allow a hundred guilty people go free than imprison one innocent person. I'm not sure if I agree with that but it's a valid point of view. However, there is no reason to apply similar principle for search engines. When the primary function is to serve the googlers and the quality of results go significantly up when blocking that domain, that's what should be done. I don't even think that there are that big ethical concerns about the significant drop in traffic for the legitimate businesses. They can migrate to TLDs that aren't as full of malware crap (Yeah. It'll take some time before their search rankings become as good as they were but that's still relatively small amount of collateral damage)
Google spammers are getting nastier and Google must take more drastic actions to protect the quality of the service.
Not large portions of the internet. Just a single spam domain name.
The di.cc sub-domain, as well as the Icelandic pen.is sub-domain.
Better to accuse 100 innocent people than let one guilty one go free!
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co.cc blocked by Google. Ouch.
http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/06/protecting-users-from-malware-hosted-on.html
You can still go there
You'll still find out about them in your email
co.cc blocked!
Heck setup the safe search options so I can pick which TLDs are in/out of my search results. I'm pretty sure it would be fine to eliminate some TLDs completely and not miss much.
Keep the Classic Slashdot.
People argue over the "acceptable ratio" of "number of guilty people who should be allowed to go free in exchange for not imprisoning one innocent person" but whatever Google's thoughts on what the ratio should be in searches, .co.cc is at least at "N+1:1" and over the limit.
I for one would be willing to be the one innocent person who went to prison for up to life in exchange for 100,000 actual criminals guilty of a charge similar in severity to the one I'm innocent of NOT going free because the standard of proof was set impossibly high. In other words, I'm willing to throw away the rest of my life to save society from the likely cumulative repeat offenses of 100,000 guilty people and the likely new offenses of others who see that it's easy to beat the system. I am NOT, however, willing to go to prison when I'm innocent to keep only 10 guilty people in prison. I'm not sure where the "n" in "n:1" is for me but it's over 10 and less than 100,000. If each person reading this thinks about it, they will realize they have their own "limit." For some, that limit may be very low, at or below 1. For others, it may be high, perhaps a billion or more.
For the death penalty I'm not willing to execute anyone until I'm 100% sure of guilt. I am, however, willing to convict and, if the charge and circumstances warrant it (which is very rare - we are talking genocidal war crimes, not typical murder), give a provisional death sentence then hold off on the execution until all questions of guilt are settled.
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From el reg (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/06/google_cans_11m_dot_co_dot_cc_sites/):
.co.cc sites from its results
By Kevin Murphy
Posted in Hosting, 6th July 2011 09:30 GMT
Google dumps all 11+ million
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The ORIGINAL FUCKING STORY IS ON THE REGISTER
For fuck's sake, stop this linking to every scumbag linkspamming plaigiarising blogger who submits his crappy blog to scam some ad hits.
Blocking sites from Google search results is about the same thing as shutting them down completely.
Judging by how well they block spam in GMail, Google should be able to do a pretty good job of blocking bad Web sites.
I wish they had started blocking malware sites long ago!
Interesting that the article says that co.cc is being managed by a company in Korea. When CC is The Cocos Islands and Keeling Islands, a territory of Australia. (Christmas Island, CX is also an Australian territory.)
co.ck would be The Cook Islands, which is a semi-autonomous part of New Zealand.
.info, and then all the other crap TLDs that ICANN keeps approving.
This is BS. g00gle engineers are being lazy. clowns
"And in the end, the MAFIAA acted more like the Government, and the DHS acted more like a greedy coproration, until it was no longer possible to tell them apart."
With a nod to George Orwell - Animal Farm.
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