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- Afrochu, on 04/22/2009, -2/+32Good. I am sick of all those spam sites showing up when I search for little mermaid porn.
- mattsull, on 04/22/2009, -0/+29I wish we could ban people that are stupid enough to be scammed from the internet
- dvsbastard, on 04/22/2009, -2/+30Digg needs to fix the comments section so any user trying to post a comment containing more than say 5 links is not allowed... This will at least temporarily stop the recent surge of comment spam...
- str3ama, on 04/22/2009, -0/+20especially fun when you're on linux and you see one of those "virus alert, scanning your system" and then shows a winxp startbar and window"
- thewonster, on 04/21/2009, -4/+22"This is not just about Google, Yahoo or any SE...
It's about time that international laws are not only implemented but enforced and those Scams of our society being brought to justice.
In my eyes - they should be sent behind bars for no less than 20 years! the internet is a MASSIVE crime scene and unless our law makers step in seriously, SE can change their Algos every few weeks, it only helps this scam getting smarter." -Comments section - pointlessjon, on 04/22/2009, -0/+17How about doing a better job of removing those terrible keyword portals from indexes, period. I can avoid scams, but waiting for a page load to reveal it's just a keyword portal with adwords littered about...goodbye 3 seconds of my life.
Also, it was very frustrating to see click-throughs on an ad campaign I was running that came from adwords on a portal page. Worthless traffic as I'm sure my content was irrelevant to whatever they were looking for. - inactive, on 04/22/2009, -2/+15Agreed. Scam artist ***** deserve to be anally raped for ruining MY internet.
I wish we could ban retarded scam ads too - LEARN SECRET RULE TO LOSING WEIGHT - WHITEN TEETH IN 5 SECONDS - etc etc etc etc etc - cmallinson, on 04/22/2009, -0/+10Dear Digg:
How difficult would it be to write a script that would disallow comments with more than, say,10 links. Or maybe more than ONE link for users who signed up less than AN HOUR AGO.
I just wrote one in my head. - SniperZero, on 04/22/2009, -2/+10Or implement a captcha image of some sort if you have over 2 links in your comment.
- Battlecry, on 04/22/2009, -0/+7I wish google wouldn't rank urls that contain your search terms so high. They're almost always spam sites.
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -0/+6lol.
- TDDebug, on 04/22/2009, -0/+5There's so many useless domains out there that are registered just to have ads and crap on them. When can we get rid of that garbage?
- sakuramochi, on 04/22/2009, -0/+5It's about time that they do something about it... I like my internet adware/spyware/whatever-ware free. I miss the days when pop-up ads were the most of your worries (other than viruses, which you'd only get if you were on a shady, infected website or got hacked) and when all the top sites WEREN'T scam/spam sites.
- Ragarnok, on 04/22/2009, -0/+5All hell is going to break loose for those selling SEO services
- d03boy, on 04/22/2009, -1/+620 years? Many of these "scam artists" aren't even 18 yet.
- Orsenfelt, on 04/22/2009, -3/+7Wouldn't it be more effective just to teach people not to fall for the scam *****?
There will ALWAYS be people trying to scam you out of money, no matter the medium. Changing algorithm will only slow them down, they'll be back at the top in a few weeks. I say it's better teaching stupid people not to fall for the ***** you see on the web.
I quite like that the internet is a wild western baron wasteland where every second turn someones trying to scam you. It keeps it nice and honest in an odd way, the less thick housewives clogging up the tubes the better! :P - BrownieMix, on 04/22/2009, -0/+4And here I thought I was the only one who looked up Disney stuff....
- SPThom, on 04/22/2009, -0/+4That's idiotic. Google has no part in doing this "evil" unless it's being complicit about the malicious sites, which couldn't be further from the truth. Google has been a major player in flagging malicious sites and powering tools that protect us at the browser level, i.e. Firefox. They're just giving their algo a dusting to evolve with the changing tactics of the bad guys.
- Orsenfelt, on 04/22/2009, -1/+4Good, It's a ***** industry anyway.
Unless you have the ***** webpage on the planet, Google gonna find you and rank you. If people aren't visiting your site, it's quite possible it's not because your ranked 5th in Google. It might be because your site sucks. - zoom1928, on 04/22/2009, -0/+3And it should! Those SEO criminals are really screwing up the web.
- Orsenfelt, on 04/22/2009, -0/+3The spammers would then just post 2 comments with 9 links each. We can't win..
- mattsull, on 04/22/2009, -2/+5try adblocker. Seems to do a good job
- encrypteduser, on 04/22/2009, -0/+3Case in point.
- arleym, on 04/22/2009, -1/+4Is this even news? Google changed the algorithm 450+ times in 2007. That's more than once a day.
(Can't find the link, it was on digg a year or two ago) - AndrewWiggin, on 04/22/2009, -0/+3I think last year Google said they changed their search algorithm more than 300 times in the year. So it's not at all a big deal if they're "set to change ranking algorithm". They've probably done it multiple times since this article was written.
- rotundo, on 04/22/2009, -0/+3It's easy to make arbitrary rules. It's hard to make rules that don't penalize legitimate usage. Just today I saw a post with 10+ links in it (to the best movie credit sequences) that was totally legit.
The moderation system here does a pretty good job of keeping me from seeing comment spam. I participate if I happen to find it before others do.
Some degree of crap will always be around, unfortunately. - inactive, on 04/22/2009, -1/+3Let me just make the point that it's not that i ever believed this stuff but it's still annoying as hell. If you're talking about people who just had to have over 9000 smilies then i agree.
- str3ama, on 04/22/2009, -1/+3probably not necessary..there are times when you may post 10 links or more in a comment and they're not spam - like reposting missing links from an article (happens more times than you'd think).
digg users do a great job at rippping out the spam, so no need to impose censors like that. - cards, on 04/22/2009, -0/+2...but the system already works. You've already dugg them down, which was quite easy. If there is comment spam on this story, I have no idea thanks to you and the other people who made a single click to digg it down before I got here.
- isunktheship, on 04/22/2009, -1/+3i agree with you mattsul..
- flamyngo, on 04/22/2009, -0/+2About time... we are over all this spam and ready to see the real content on the front page. I know I'm not the only one who's got better crap to do than to dig through spam!
- whytey, on 04/22/2009, -1/+3who would want to bother?
- SuperRoach, on 04/22/2009, -0/+2I came to this story just because of the perfect setup it had from the rss reader:
http://i39.tinypic.com/2zxus89.png
Definately adding to the failblog. - nmoulana, on 04/22/2009, -2/+3I'm getting the vibe that most of digg is anti google but I'm oblivious to why and frankly I don't give a ***** because google is the best website on the internet. After digg of course.
- moothemagiccow, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1Look at the URL of the page you're posting on.
- jonesyb, on 04/22/2009, -4/+5Put them away for 20 years?
Jesus put your boner away. - d03boy, on 04/22/2009, -4/+5Yeah... Firefox + AdBlock = No ads
- johnwes16, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1Actually, seeing as most sites are SEO conscientious these days, I'd say its more than likely the site you would like to find (i.e. containing the most relevant information) would have the keyword somewhere in the url.
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -1/+2I'm in SRWare Iron with it's adblock filter and it does the job too, but i was using Chrome before this and i couldn't stand the ads. Although It wasn't exclusively chrome - i still use FF a bit.
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1Yes, we're talking about you, sir
- zip000, on 04/22/2009, -1/+2I have noticed that Google searches have been crappy for a while now.
I seem to be getting less link farms lately, but I still get a lot of out of date information before I get to the good stuff...I know that I can limit the date range searched, but that should happen to some degree automatically I think. - secrity, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1What does their age have to do with it? Charge them as adults and sentence them to 20 years. In the US, with good behaviour they would probably get out before they turn 30.
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1 Yeah it is! I've had it happen 3 times so far and even took a screen shot of it.
An added kicker was when I closed the window a pop up appeared and said:"Your computer is still infected."
Surrrrre it is. - Catchpen, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1Google "Powered By Pligg" and you'll see several examples how the 'SEO Masters' try to link spam their site or a clients site to a higher Google ranking.
- dgxshiny, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1I get surprisingly great results from those ***** MFA pages. It blows my mind. It is amazing that the common people search, land on these pages, click through to my page and sign up. Unbelievable.
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1Not that hard - i have a similar function for guests on my imageboard (running Shimmie) and it took about an hour. Not only that, but it stopped all spam completely.
- stockjones, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1lol adsense is like the spam of the web. Google ads adorning every little blog and web space across the web. I always hated that crap.. Finally the "cool" of it is wearing out.
- moothemagiccow, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1Can anyone READ this goddamn site? I can't imagine a more crowded, hideous layout.
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -0/+0In other words, Google is going to start hand-picking which sites get to the top.
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