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- m1th, on 10/12/2007, -4/+74A firefox extension for this would be great - one that automatically inputs the URL, desc etc.
- Yuffie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Your problem is that you spelled it wrong... it's tiananmen.
- bkreck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Great but people see spam differently. I hope google has sensible people running this. If it works good I hope more search sites make this a feature.
- joh6nn, on 10/12/2007, -8/+18a GreaseMonkey script would be better; i'm of the opinion that unless you actually need to attach it to the browser, it should probably be a GreaseMonkey script.
- gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Why does it matter if it's "old"? A lot of people didn't know about it.
- johnnylin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7this needs to be integrated into google searches so users can just click a button to report it
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Theres a reason they dont make it that easy. They dont want people reporting their competition all of the time just to be an idiot. You can imagine how many spam reports they'd get (and would have to personally verify) if there was a spam button next to each search result.
- gamesector, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I wonder how many people will abuse this and try to get enemies' sites banned?
- kalphegor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@berberrama
almost, because that website could be for "mail order movies, cameras and cell phones", but you just search on Google for "cameras" - Moldarin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Your right. I shuld have titeld it «Report pure advertisement junk in Google». But I don't think anyone whould have read it then.
- mfearby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I hope their definition of spam includes sites like soft32.com, filehungry.com, top-shareware.net, etc, which exist for no other purpose than to increase their google rank to display advertising (oh, and frustrate people actually looking for real solutions and not JUNK!)
- TopherT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I hope Google makes sure that unique IP addresses can only report a website once, that should cut down on that kind of thing.
- madinga, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4GREAT, so now I know how to negatively affect my competitor's rankings in Google. Oh, yeah, damn, so do they. I hope Google watches out for maliscious reporting on this...
- gpmidi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Add "-free" (minus quotes for you non-programmers) to your query
- disrupter, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I don't think they really care; there is absolutely not validation on the form. You can simply enter nothing and submit.
- zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm sure that google knows that this could be abused.
So I'm sure that they will vet every link sent to them in some way.
or this data could be used to build better spam filter for the search engine.
Something needs to be done for typo and spam sites. - mfearby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Experts exchanges has occasionally come up with the right answers, but it is extremely disappointing that their site is so god-damned UGLY and full-to-the-brim with cruft/advertising/pointless-linkage/the-list-goes-on. It's easy to see why people consider this site as nothing but a spam can!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I doubt that Google will have enough humanly resources to check ALL spam reports in the future. The concept is great, but as it is now, it's going to flop under the weight of reports eventually. Sincerely though, good luck, Google.
- zcreem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Nice find, though I suppose I should have thought to look under contact, just to busy.
'bout time they started to take some human input as the spiders and webs aren't quiet up to the job at the moment. Hope they check the complaints properly though and not just flick the switch. - garraeth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yeah, thats really ***** up...most people here are so anti-gov/big business limitations, then at the same time want huge screwed up censorship like this. How hard is it for a company to go in and say their competitor is spam? Even if it's got no foundation, it puts huge stress on the other company, and will even put some of the smaller ones out of business.
- duniyadnd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Nice, now if they could only do that for different areas of their sites (let them know about image filteration issues, inaccurate news etc). Doesn't have to be spam, but what I've seen is that the contact page for Google on various locations of the site is badly placed (non-existant in many cases).
- Scottamus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good idea but there is not even any human vs bot checker in the form. The spammers can and probably already are sending junk reports and/or reporting legit sites as spam using bots to flood the whole system.
- ogletree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Website owners are pretty much the only people that use this to report each other. I guess now that it is on Digg maybe more people will use it. I have never seen them use the information posted to it. You can report the worst website you have even seen breaking every rule and the site willstill be there in 6 months.
- gsam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That would probably be att Cutts and his webspam team at Google
- Moldarin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And report SPAM in Live.com / MSN Search / A9 / Alexa as well!
http://digg.com/technology/Report_SPAM_in_Live.com_MSN_Search_A9_Alexa - estemp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Search engine spamming is one thing, but I want a way to be able to report to Google/Yahoo/MSN websites that send out spam emails too. Let us report the spam messages they send and then remove the websites from their search engine index. That way email spamming will start to hurt them in another way.
- garraeth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I worked for a company that was the victim of this sort of thing. Our biggest competitor saw us coming up from behind then claimed we stole their software. HotScripts wouldn't list us *at all* because our competitor paid them big $ in ad's. So we had to fold because HotScripts wouldn't listen to us at all and word got out that we stole the software -- totally unfounded too! But rumors kill small companies easy.
- wweasel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5OBKenobi, you've demonstrated a severe misunderstanding of this whole thing.
Let's start with the conspiracy theory that Google will start censoring anything that doesn't reflect Judeo-Christian values. Firstly, I think orthodox Islam or any other religion is just against "unwholesome" things as Judeo-Christian. Secondly, it's highly unlikely that Google will start censoring its results worldwide (they do so in China under government regulations, which I'll get to in a second). It is not in their best interest: there would be a massive public backlash, as we've seen in the fact that they censor things in China. And they have nothing to gain from it. The most basic cost/benefit analysis would tell them that.
So what happens in a public backlash? People move to competitors, as you recognized. Google has competitors: Yahoo, MSN Search, along with a whole lot of other small meta-engines.
Your biggest mistake though was saying that China's Baidu would make a good alternative to Google, since it might in the future start censoring. "If only Baidu were translated to English." That's hilarious, because Baidu is already censored to remove anything the Chinese government doesn't approve of. That's simply Chinese law. Google follows it within China, because that makes sense from a business standpoint, but outside of China that would never fly. So, rephrased: "If only a currently censoring search engine were translated to English so we could all use it, it would make a good alternative to Google if it ever decided to censor."
If you thought all of this was fairly obvious, and didn't really require this explanation, I agree. I was just shocked that OBKenobi's comment got + diggs, and it seemed that some people were misinformed.
Now, after all this, you could consider both of our comments off topic, since they discuss censorship and this has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with censorship. A tool to remove spam is useful for people, and it doesn't aid Google in any way to censor things. They could do that behind our backs right now if you believe in such conspiracies, this doesn't help them, it isn't remotely related to censorship. - 15charmaxwtf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2A good start for google would be to remove all pages containing the word "FREE" :p
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i notice they have a feature when logged in to remove results from the search page, why not have an automatic link that when clicked will go to the form and insert the url/title and whatever other info and let the user select why the site is in violation and comments...this is soooo easy to do with php and it would make it so much easier.
The form as it is currently may be scary to novice users, and they may think of it as a waste of time - or tedious to fill out. Simple php script could fix all this. - engalicorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Quick, everybody submit www.democrats.org
- 15charmaxwtf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Use the customize google extention and filter it out.
I'm going to report experts-exchange on this page now, only way I can get back at them for wasting my time.
Funnily enough a searchfor experts exchange returns a wikipee page about it, near the top, but not the experts exchange page. - leszek, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5oops right :)
but you know there is also another problem. - stray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This will only end in tears. Now, whenever you break up with your girl/boyfriend, they'll get you spammed out of google.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No offense... but that's some poor logic.
They are going to after to have a RealPerson(TM) sit down and review these (at least initially). It'll be fairly trivial for them to filter it out after the fact.
Sure, they could have done javascript based checks, but you'd still be able to get around that anyway. It's also quite possible that they just don't save the blank input. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i think it should be integrated into google toolbar.. dun ask how..
- yada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.experts-exchange.com is actually a pretty handy site. and it's extremely easy to get free membership there. just answer a couple questions a month to get 3000 points and you can qualify for free 'premium services' (one answer can be worth as much as 2000), no ads, all the answers. piece of cake.
and ya know, if you don't want to bother with the hour or so it'd take to do that each month.... google's cache is your friend. scroll down past the ads between the question and comments and you'll find the answers. you might need to disable cookies from their domain, not sure. and firefox w/ adblock does a pretty good job at filtering the ads and junk... - williamgunn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I liked it better when their name didn't have the hyphen.
- betona, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I used to work with them peripherally. If you point out something wrong in their results, they won't lift a finger to manually fix it like you and I would like to have happen. They worship at the devine church of Our Lady of Software Coding. What they will do with incorrect results is go back into their code and work on the logic and the algorithms to do a better job. And that can take months, like the time I was seeing horoscope ads on an automobile site (it saw a Ford *Taurus* -- get it??). Took them 8 or 10 months to fix that.
- xiaomonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@ TopherT
Well, on the off chance that the person doing the malicious tagging of your site has a clue, it shouldn't be too hard for them to come up with multiple unique IP addresses. I mean the people engaged in click fraud already do it.... - smackfumaster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why would any of you want to help Google improve their product without being paid??
- citizenjim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0People should to the same thing in Blogspot if they find a spam blog.
- nolovelust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0just clear your cookies to browse the site
- briansmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We could use this to report all the sites that use Google's own DomainPark service (www.google.com/domainpark/). If we all did so, Google would see how harmful and useless we feel these sites are.
- zblackeagle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As comments above have pointed out, there is a potential to abuse it. However, some suggestions...
- Marking results as spam should be possible through a link alongside the "cached" and "similar pages" links. Who wants to go to an entirely new page to report spam results?
- It should only be an option while logged on to "personalised search". This way the person's "spam" results can be tracked for abuse. And then if there is any abuse, the person can be have their abused input reset and be warned or have their account suspended.
[Edit]After having "RTFA", I saw how spam would be categorised. Perhaps AJAX could be used to categorise spam on Google's results as problem articles are categorised on Digg? - zyko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't know what google is feeding people but search result "spam"?? This is hilarious! It's google search algorithm for god's sake that lists crappy websites. It's a google issue. Is google a wikisearch engine now? There are only good results or poor results. Yeah I know what people are calling "spam" - sites with misleading or no real content or value that only aim to redirect to affiliate ads or google adsense ads. But don't forget it is google's job to filter websites and people that game the system is just the way it is. Websites have a right to game google for top rank - that is capitalism at work. The real issue is most "spam" sites are users of adsense, so i see google profiting off these kind of pathetic results and endorsing them. Why don't people call it spam is when a website shows up for all category based searches such as (for product searches) ebay, amazon, shopping.com, bizrate.com, etc. ( I know why this happens, but it doesn't make it relevant) To me it is far worse to universally cater to generic monopolistic corporate sites over all other sites. Another reason for poor results is that google profits off of poor results because users are forced to use the adwords. Does anyone else notice that searches for a high cost keywords results in statistically non-usable websites? Try search for high profit keywords and see for yourself. Apparently I am one of the few people who have a problem with search engines who compete with their own search results with money making ad based search results.
On top of everything else google likes to blacklist and penalize websites for anything and everything with no explanation. They make the US tax code look easy. So many legit sites, including many blogs do not show up in google. It's easy to see this in action because most people have favorite websites that are hard to find anywhere in google search results. Hardcore SEO gamers learn the ins and outs of google's secret little rule book through trial and error, so they tend to be the ones who get better search results. So the complex rules actually hurt innocent websites.
Now the idea that people can submit "spam" sites is a joke. I have never heard someone doing this out of concern for accurate results, but to only eliminate competition. It is a self serving motive out of greed either way. Greedy people are gaming google and scoring and then greedy people are complaining because their rank sucks and they are jealous. It is greed either way I see it. What someone sees as spam is purely personal. I see a website that looks to be designed by a pre-schooler and content be damned - I want that POS to be removed from google. A wikisearch engine just wont work because self serving intentions would destroy it.
Of course like everyone says - google won't do anything about your complaint. It's just a PR formality to have the form. - sherifff, on 02/23/2008, -0/+0Report abuse: http://www.fraud-mail.land.ru/article/spam/report_ ...
- firehydra2k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Very useful. I wish I knew about this so I could snipe out those gay pages with ***** advertisements on them...
- Johnbinarystar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1What I hate are those tech support boards that somehow manage to only get thier questions indexed, so your "hit" in Google is just you question repeated to you. What a waste, since you have to join $$ these sites to see the answers. If Google does not stop this, pretty soon more goons will pick this method up.
Here is thier url https://secure.experts-exchange.com, I think its a google scam/spam. - fggarnett, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I like the idea alot, as long as it works and hold true to what it says..
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