Lord_Majestic - 2:29 pm on Aug 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

They'll hire more PhDs to find spammers.

You don't need PhD to crack down on spam - this is where outsourcing to India (where Google now created base) makes sense:

Say cost of $1,000 per month for a pair of eyes checking suspected of spam websites.

One person should be able to check at least 1 suspected URL per minute. @ 60 minutes per hour * 8 hours per day * 20 working days it is 9,600 sites per month.

Hire 1,000 people to do the job there, and you get 9,600,000 sites checked per month - I can't mind stats but I think total number of domain names registered is around 20-30 mln.

Total cost is $12,000,000 per annum, sounds like a drop in an ocean of Google's money.

I know its simplified but I think in short term getting lots of cheap humans might help.