webmaster-headquarters.com— Spammers depend on Google BIG time as can be seen with the massive Google ban that just occurred, of over seven BILLION pages.
Jun 22, 2006View in Crawl 4
7 BILLION pages == 1 php script.It takes 10 lines of php and 3 lines of .htaccess to make it look like your web server is hosting billions and billions of crap-filled php pages.While it's clear that lone script had apparently way too much impact on google's DB, I'm not sure the ban itself qualifies as "MASSIVE".
I've said this at a few other places, but I'll mention it here: those spammy pages are gone, but there was nowhere close to 7B spam pages from these sites in Google's index. Google's "site:" operator was misbehaving for a while last week and was returning estimates that were like 5-6 orders of magnitude too high, so the actual number of spammy pages wasn't really that much.
I know. All of us webmasters are just frustrated that the site: command is still broken on about half the sites on the internet on Google.com, while the IP datacenters look like it's just about fixed. When Google is broken isn't the time to be on vacation!!!
Yeah - they should have said it like it is - they banned two guys from a Romanian garage and all there's nothing they are doing about all the other crap in their index. Not doing anything about these guys would have exposed them to lawsuits (like the one for AdSense) as these domains had become high-profile topic of the SEO community.
Matt, now u r talkin mate.... it just goes to show u can write anything and get away with it... people tend to believe u if there r a couple of solid names behind them... how can a moron try and get so many pages... first of all... just calculate the time period, the work involved, break it down to pages per time involved... it should be a lot of bull... the alexa effect is convincing (somethin I must try one of these days)...Ya know... when we need some bad media publicity, get a scapegoat... put the tab on him get another set of morons who have vested interests to support that.... get it into a leading mag/ daily/ blog or whatchmacallit... and by the time they figgur things out any problem would have been solved (hopefully)... Then it is..who r u mate...who said about this.... who knows about it... we were talking about moonrocks.... u got us all wrong... blah..blah...Whatever it is.... such stufff really get guys going... must make a point of it as well...
"Maria: it was a handjob, not an automatic ban. Only reason this got banned was because he was outed. Many are still live"Now I really know what Google's plan for world domination is!
Closed AccountJun 23, 2006
WOW. That's a big operation they have going there.
metal_hurlantJun 23, 2006
7 BILLION pages == 1 php script.It takes 10 lines of php and 3 lines of .htaccess to make it look like your web server is hosting billions and billions of crap-filled php pages.While it's clear that lone script had apparently way too much impact on google's DB, I'm not sure the ban itself qualifies as "MASSIVE".
nairanvacJun 23, 2006
Digg down, poster above said same thing....
snlildude87Jun 23, 2006
why is the entire page linked to forumpostersunion.com??
mattcuttsJun 23, 2006
I've said this at a few other places, but I'll mention it here: those spammy pages are gone, but there was nowhere close to 7B spam pages from these sites in Google's index. Google's "site:" operator was misbehaving for a while last week and was returning estimates that were like 5-6 orders of magnitude too high, so the actual number of spammy pages wasn't really that much.
wackosJun 23, 2006Submitter
I know. All of us webmasters are just frustrated that the site: command is still broken on about half the sites on the internet on Google.com, while the IP datacenters look like it's just about fixed. When Google is broken isn't the time to be on vacation!!!
abuserJun 23, 2006
Yeah - they should have said it like it is - they banned two guys from a Romanian garage and all there's nothing they are doing about all the other crap in their index. Not doing anything about these guys would have exposed them to lawsuits (like the one for AdSense) as these domains had become high-profile topic of the SEO community.
mark4Jun 23, 2006
Matt, now u r talkin mate.... it just goes to show u can write anything and get away with it... people tend to believe u if there r a couple of solid names behind them... how can a moron try and get so many pages... first of all... just calculate the time period, the work involved, break it down to pages per time involved... it should be a lot of bull... the alexa effect is convincing (somethin I must try one of these days)...Ya know... when we need some bad media publicity, get a scapegoat... put the tab on him get another set of morons who have vested interests to support that.... get it into a leading mag/ daily/ blog or whatchmacallit... and by the time they figgur things out any problem would have been solved (hopefully)... Then it is..who r u mate...who said about this.... who knows about it... we were talking about moonrocks.... u got us all wrong... blah..blah...Whatever it is.... such stufff really get guys going... must make a point of it as well...
moeqJun 23, 2006
Go Google! Ban the Spam!
thefoundryJun 24, 2006
"Maria: it was a handjob, not an automatic ban. Only reason this got banned was because he was outed. Many are still live"Now I really know what Google's plan for world domination is!
Closed AccountAug 7, 2006
Thanks to this page, they got banned in minutes :)