Reno - 2:24 pm on Jan 19, 2007 (gmt 0)

Put yourself in a search engine's shoes. Spammers put millions of dud pages on the SE's hard disks. You can define quality by certain criteria, and spam by other.

Just to clarify, I completely support the removal of junk pages from any search engine index. I was responding to the banning of an entire site because some of the pages are considered spam. According to written postings on this board by a Google rep, that IS a policy that Google embraces.

I am just hoping that MSN does not follow suit.

It is like punishing an entire school for the behavior of a few students; or firing an entire office full of people because a couple employees are not competent. It is over-reacting, self-defeating, and should be unacceptable by law, or at the very least, by common sense.

But yes, absolutely, remove all the spam pages -- you'll get no argument from me about that!

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