Google Search Quality Report

[canuck]

I found a 678 Link-farm on 400-500 domains that has gotten a certain website to PR 7. The only legitmate links for this website are a DMOZ and 2-3 others... the rest are from identical one-page "search" sites with only one link to a certain website.

Interestingly this website has 0 links on "www" and now 678 on "www3" since the update.

They also conviently just removed the link to this website today after the update... however, there's always Googles handy cache!

I only write this here because Google's Spam Report forwards to its homepage after you submit it... so I'm unsure if Google's spam feature is offline or this is just how it behaves.

Perhaps instead of redirecting to the homepage... a thank-you for the spam report message would be helpful.

-canuck

[edited by: NFFC at 8:47 am (utc) on Mar. 9, 2003]

[NFFC]

I would try [e-mail] and cc to [e-mail] , I think a form that redirects to anything other than a thank you page is a bug.

[canuck]

Agreed it does seem buggy which is why I posted here to see if anyone else thought it was buggy...

Maybe this is why GoogleGuy mentioned they had received so few spam reports this month.

- canuck

[Powdork]

I think GoogleGuy said he "could count on one hand, barely" the amount of reports they had received about the update which was only one hour old on www.2 and 3 at the time. It does seem as though the spam cries are down this month's update plus reports of spam being removed which is rarely the case.

<edit> I mean that we rarely hear those reports, not that they rarely remove the spam</edit>

[edited by: Powdork at 9:24 am (utc) on Mar. 9, 2003]

[canuck]

Well I'll let Google sort it out. It looks like a bug, or perhaps they were sick of the spam reports:)

Emails were sent to webmaster@ and suggestions@ to notify them.

- canuck

[Andinio]

I sent a spam report on Friday, i too was forwarded to the homepage. (added my nick to text).

Google (i am sure) do everything they can can reduce spam content, all i know is that for my keywords - spam now rules. What hurts more is that many of these sites are new, no backlinks, new domains (multiple domains).

What with this new dance plus Overture buying everything with a heart beat, it's clear that money is King. Google will become the target of all search engine content spammers.

thanks canuck :)

[edited by: Andinio at 10:36 am (utc) on Mar. 9, 2003]

[canuck]

Andinio, I only meant I notified them their Spam Report webpage could be down... I didn't send them my spam report to webmaster@/etc to hassle them.

I agree it's probably very annoying to Google if people submit a spam report to them via Email when there are proper methods of doing so... even if they're down atm.

Maybe GoogleGuy can tell us when it's fixed.

- canuck