A lot of problem listings got dropped last night?

[rocco]

the last time i was watching this was the night at dec 23/24. is this always happening a few days prior to the update?
spam networks which made it into the last update are just dissappearing, i am not talking about 100 domains - i am talking about 1000's...

anyone thinks this is an indication for the date of the actual update?

[troels nybo nielsen]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, rocco

I have never heard about such a thing, but then I operate in quite unspammy surroundings. GoogleGuy recently said something about things to be expected concerning spam, I think. This may be part of it.

[BroadProspect]

yep! you are right
my sites move a few places up!

[lazyz]

Could it be what you are seeing is the lack of "fresh bot" activities and fresh results? It seems that just before the update "fresh" listings tend to disappear.

[sem4u]

I have seen a site using spammy techniques receive a white PR bar a couple of days before an update. The site remained in the SERPS until the update started.

[x_m]

There were definitely tons of domains banned and kicked out of index last night. I noticed a lot of ninja bans to dmoz abusers ;)
XM

[Nick_W]

>ninja bans to dmoz abusers

er......what?

Nick

[Rugles]

I do not see any evidence of such an occurance.

I think you folks are witnessing the "Everflux".

[x_m]

>>ninja bans to dmoz abusers
>er......what?

bunch of domains listed in non-adult categories of dmoz misused for selling porn sites has been completely deleted from google index. Not penalized but banned. Clear now :)?

[rocco]

x_m - that's exactly what i am seeing - i know your def. of ninja ban from prior post.

it's not everflux, those sites came in with the last update.

i have seen one guy hit pretty hard (the .biz/.info - guy)
but there were many other networks falling last night, too.

[hetzeld]

I'd like to see this happen worldwide. That's most definitely a scoop! Come on , GG, keep on cleaning :))

Dan

[top5jamaica]

i've seen spammy sites with 0 PR outranking sites with PR 4/5 for some light keywords. awhh shucks ... what to do!

[GoogleGuy]

Mmmmm, ninja bans, gahhahaah. (How do I write a Homer Simpson noise?)

The short answer is that we've focused more of our energy on scalable spam solutions recently, but we're still taking action on some spam reports, esp. ones like off-topic porn showing up for a person's name. So you should still feel free to submit spam reports, but please keep reasonable expectations--we want to tackle spam in the most scalable way we can, and for the most part that means new algorithms. Because algorithms can work 24 hours a day. :)

[Rugles]

GG

I think Homer laughs like this.

bhaaahaaahaaa

Have a good day GG

[seo4life]

Google hit most spammers sites but the big ones they did not punish. Make a search on "<snip>" and you get neary 55.000 examples.

[edited by: WebGuerrilla at 2:13 am (utc) on Feb. 27, 2003]
[edit reason] no specifics please [/edit]

[austtr]

rocco.... no changes evident in my areas. Hidden links networks still dominating.