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- sniper6121, on 10/12/2007, -2/+83spam is lame im glad google is banning them.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+64"While a hand job will work for now, when will the indexing algorithm be repaired?"
Lol. - IcanFLY, on 10/12/2007, -0/+53It is interesting to note that only FIVE domains were banned and that it was a single person hosting 7 billion pages and subdomains.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -6/+34It's great that Digg had such a huge influence on Google's actions.
Thank you to everyone who reported the sites last week when it was on digg - and thanks to google for listening. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25makes me feel great about my sites with actual content NOT being indexed and showing cache from over a year ago
- Shwaza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Wow, I remember when the google homepage boasted searching 7 billion pages. It's amazing that they have such a huge index to drop 7 billion pages at once.
- ummagummas08, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Sploogle, your best source for porn and spam. The two are very related.
- carguy84, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18PBWiki?
It's peanut butter wiki time, peanut butter wiki time, where you at? where you at? now there you go, there you go, there you go. - piper999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Googlespam sounds better...but not as good as Spoogle.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13WOW. That's a big operation they have going there.
- Metal_Hurlant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+127 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". - dan2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Googlowned!
- dweekly, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Their algorithms can be overaggressive about dropping sites with subdomains. I run PBwiki, the biggest wiki farm on the Net, and after we had a few spammers create spam wikis with our service (consitituting about 1% of our userbase), Google nearly entirely dropped all of our users' pages from their index. We fixed the problem almost immediately but our users are still invisible in Google's indices and there's no obvious way to get them back where they deserve to be in the rankings. Google needs a better process for letting non-spam domains get relisted.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Maybe they should call it splooge...
- dragonmortal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8now is the perfect time to search for porn
- luke--, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Peanut butter wiki, peanut butter wiki, peanut butter wiki with a baseball bat!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -15/+19Original Digg where it was outed:
http://digg.com/technology/How_One_Spammer_Got_BILLIONS_of_Pages_into_Google_in_3_Weeks - gnatinator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Google.respect++
etc - CyberGlitch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Because of their the banned websites' interlinking they were probably easy to find-- their greatest strength turned to their greatest weakness.
- ummagummas08, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I think the word Spamoogle in itself will keep Google from becoming Spamoogle, Spamoogle sounds ***** retarded. Read the bottom of the article for more info on 'Spamoogle'
- Skeuomorph, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4No webserver to read article = no Digg. Seven billion spam pages deleted? Digg anyway.
- Darth_tater, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Thank You, google!
- david76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.duggmirror.com/technology/Results_of_a_MASSIVE_Google_Ban_-_7_BILLION_Pages/
- NoteMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A bit like my stats before and after Digg...:D:D:D:D
http://www.noteme.com/images/ss/digg-down.jpg - MattCutts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'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.
- carguy84, on 10/12/2007, -13/+15||
You know that that is? The worlds smallest violin playing for those spammers. - brucebeh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3these are 7 billion pages we KNOW google is banning, im sure theres a lot more google is banning that aren't as big but at the same time help drive up the quality of the search results
- mark4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Matt, 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... - mark4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It just is not spam... in some places it is considered opportunity... if you are in the right place at the right time and make the right connection.. it is spam depending on who did it.. it is not spam because the big G did not know about it or did they ? But then there is always Newton's 3rd law and it applies to both sides... Financially it does not benefit any of us or does it... what would our comments be if was beneficial or perhaps if was a master or guru who capitalized on this loophole... It is a load of turd... just about anybody makes use of somebody else if they bend down ! In this big G kept its rep intact, when they knew they were being made s**kers! Why didn't they do it earlier? Why did they have to wait until now.... It's all in the game... we are the ones sitting here and making a brouhaha about it.... It's not fair, agreed but it is also not fair that they waited so long to have it banned..... Anyway, the show must go on...
- TheFoundry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"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! - gamesector, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's about time. I'm sick of being fooled into clicking search pages stuffed with keywords.
- V1ncent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Now if they just knock out any websites with those phentermine and other common spam terms the world would be a better place.
- techlinks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Go Google! I guess this adds more spots for legit sites on Alexa right?
- phad3rs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Hahaha, suckers.
- TugsMcgroin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Simply fantastic! The power of people promoting a problem clearly has been proven. Shame on Google for not catching this before someone else did.
- Wackos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've got 20,706 visitors from this so far!!! It caused my server to crash once!! http://www.webstats4u.com/s?tab=1&link=1&id=4046270
- Wackos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yo, Matt, explain to us how the sites ended up being in the top 2,000 ranking web sites on the Internet according to Alexa, if it was just a 'blip'. And how did there rankings crash after they were banned, if it was 'just a blip' and they only had 10,000 URLs indexed. It takes millions if not billions of URLs indexed in Google to end up being in the top 2,000 on Alexa when your traffic depends on Google.
A blog update confessing you've been wrong the whole time and 'Spamoogle' has been messed up would be nice. - scott1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@sapo916
What does that have do with anything?
Oh yeah here's a nice link I found that might help you:
http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ - nacs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And how long till those same spammers buy 5 new domains and point their content there?
Banning domains isn't enough. Google needs to get their algorithms improved to weed out these kind of sites automatically (of which there are lots of still in their searches). - abuser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah - 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. - scott1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Lets see what happens when you do a google search for thoes spamers
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=t1ps2see.com+OR+Eiqz2q.org+OR+Rfni70.org+OR+Rfni70.org+OR+Geku8h.org&btnG=Google+Search
Lets see if the same goes for yahoo:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=t1ps2see.com+OR+Eiqz2q.org+OR+Rfni70.org+OR+Rfni70.org+OR+Geku8h.org&ei=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&fr=moz2 - Wackos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I 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!!!
- MattCutts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I get back from vacation in about a week or so, and then I'll be asking around about the site: operator to find out the latest.
- Zreitan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3poor google...indexing 7 BILLION pages of crap much be hard on them, i mean really, i feel bad for them having to waste so much space.
- snlildude87, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1why is the entire page linked to forumpostersunion.com??
- moeq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Go Google! Ban the Spam!
- Muddle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well that's one of the problems that was discussed in the older thread. Google is listing trash spouted by imbeciles when people are searching for facts. I don't want to read the nocturnal emissions of the cabbages grown on your wiki farm.
- COBOLdinosaur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So is Google going to refund all the money it collected from advertisers whose ads got click on the spam sites, or do they just pocket the cash and encourage more of this kind of crap so they can continue to screw honest site operators trying build their site the right way?
- AlexApetrei, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Ohhh. NO , google baned a site, we're all soooo much better now.
big wopdie. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thanks to this page, they got banned in minutes :)
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