17 out of the top 20 search results are questionable on this search

[matze]

Accidentally I found a German two keyword search phrase that returns 17 times the same site in the top20 for that search term.

Even worse: that site has absolutely nothing to do with the search term. They just stuffed the title and body with tons of keywords, used multiple domains and called their html files keyword1_keyword2.html.

If you click the search result they even redirect you from keyword1_keyword2.html to another page (always the same).

So they just generated tons of nicely optimized pages (titles, body text, filenames...) and redirect all of them to their single spam site where none of your searched keywords exist!

Any opinions on quality of google algo or can someone find even worse search results?

[edited by: heini at 8:33 pm (utc) on April 19, 2003]

[badger_uk]

Just did a search for *...* using google.co.uk and got the same results (serials, cracks). When I did a search and ticked "pages from the UK" all the spam sites were gone. Can anyone explain this?

badgeruk

[edited by: heini at 3:57 pm (utc) on April 25, 2003]
[edit reason] removed specifics [/edit]

[badger_uk]

Ignore above post. Forgot google (UK Only) only shows .coms registered in the uk.

badger uk

[matze]

GoogleGuy 04/20/03:
matze, I'd be curious to know what search phrase you were using. Would you mind dropping a spam report and mention your WebmasterWorld nickname?

Wow, checking the new www-sj index they filtered out ALL those hundreds of spammy duplicate content domains and only left one of them in the index.

Are they doing manual editing or is this a new nicely working duplicate content filter?