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The fresh tag is a big chance for "short-time" spammers.
It reminds me of Dow Jones and daytrading.
It's interesting to see how some people can still do huge Google spam, being caught and then do it again with a new set of domains. Never ending spam game ;)
Right, thanks to the freshbot. The deep crawl squashes most spam with it's algo during index creation time.
Also, precisely how are you defining "spam"? To me as a user, if I run a search for purple penguins and a bunch of porn sites are on the SERP, I call that spam. However, if I search to buy widgets, and the sites that come up high are widget sellers, then to me that is relevant. What those selling widgets consider spam, and those buying them consider spam, may be different things.
It's just a matter of domain availability. .coms have been around for awhile, so the number of "good" domains left is less. When you get into .biz an .info, you can come up with the 200-300 domains you are going to use to spam much quicker.
Yes, spammers have figured out how to get their listings in the index with freshbot.
Would it be worth moving all freshbot hits off a prominent link on the SERP, leaving only the long-term hits there? That would thwart the people who re-save their files daily with a cron job.
.com are the cheapest TLD, and as WebGuerilla said, its a lot easier to get a keyword.info than a keyword.com domain these days.
Shak
