internetheaven - 8:29 pm on Oct 20, 2004 (gmt 0)

Meanwhile, the spammers who work in foreign markets, or markets that don't show up on the radar screen continue to have succes using the same techniques that worked back in '98.

Shockingly true! We tried pushing our products into the European market and couldn't get a natural top 10 result on Google due to spam. Unfortunately no other free listing search engine is used that much in European countries so everything comes down to Adwords.

I hadn't considered the human review aspect of the US market, here in the UK it is still really bad.