SyntheticUpper - 4:16 pm on Mar 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hi GG,

Hey SyntheticUpper, the last time I saw a post of yours I checked the email and spam report queues to see if you'd sent in any reports. You hadn't, so I suggested contacting us if you wanted us to see specific feedback. I just checked again and still no emails or spam reports from you. If you'd prefer to post here with no details about the searches you do that's your choice, but the offer still stands if you want to send specific searches or spam reports to be checked out. I'm curious which searches you and ILuvSearchEngines dislike so much. :)

Much appreciated, and you seem a fair person. But this level of spamming is too minor for Google to deal with. You people like to deal with this at the algo level - and the algo(s) is (are) the problem. It is deliberate borderline spamming on his part, but unfortunately the serps now seem to be full of it.

I have reported this site before, twice, through the 'usual channels', but now that he's removed his hidden text, there's little anyone can do - he is just playing the algo for all its worth.

My point is that his little 'tricks' shouldn't be working in a sophisticated algo. He also uses bare URLs as links, containing keywords. Once again though, not exactly 'hidden' - just way off the bottom of the page, where no-one will ever scroll down to.

Your problems with the algo appear to be links based - I do wish you would sort it out.

Thanks for your concern anyway :)