harry_wales - 10:49 am on Nov 23, 2005 (gmt 0)

One other thing - using Google's SPAM REPORT page to report these offenders seems to have little effect - although I do note that one site I reported that was advertising GUARANTEED 1st place in Google for any keyword has now removed that claim. But the same company is responsible for thousands of cloaked pages in Google's index, which I also reported but they are all still there...

I think that unless Google get this sorted soon they will lose their position - which MSN and Yahoo are just dying to grab form them anyway...

Even now, if I need to do any research for a client I can't use Google anymore, I have to use Wisenut or Yahoo, because Google is just putting out thousands of duplicates, or in some cases completely unrelated rubbish - a lot of which belongs to so called "Black Hat SEO's", and one in particular here in the UK.