Miamacs - 10:38 am on Sep 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

After wiping out a good deal of our own CMS based websites with a MySQL server that wouldn't start after a reboot... wanted to check on the static sites in Google. To cheer me up.

- Copy pasted one site's intro text without quotes for the query.

- It was #1, and a few closely related sites followed, let's say... 6 entries.

But then I saw there were over 450 results. And this wasn't an estimate, neither hidden below the "turn off the filter" ... uh I mean "click here to see the omitted results" link. These were prime time, fully indexed, non supplemental pages on approx 450 domains.

Yeah you guessed it.
Chinese spam sites.

This isn't even news but I noticed something I didn't see before.
A good majority of these domains were listed as follows:

fake title whatever blahblah
... description with some of our keyphrases plus a lot of
other scraped stuff all mixed up yet showing for this query...
xr.aghdweo. cn/whatever.html

...

There's some kind of a character between the domain and cn.
It looks like a dot in Western encoding. But it's not really a dot.
I don't quite get it. Not all domains are listed like that.

...

[edited by: Miamacs at 10:42 am (utc) on Sep. 18, 2007]