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Using Google Search to Spam Forums

Spammers link to a search page where they are #1

         

creepychris

7:15 pm on Mar 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I've been seeing a lot of this lately. Autogenerated posts to a Google search where the spammers are #1 in the SERPS. I guess the idea is that a link to a Google SERP will seem impartial and hence less likely to be removed. The spammers then capture a high percentage of the clickthroughs since they occupy one of the top spots. At first I thought it wes wierd that three posts in a row would suggest searching Google (and then supplying keywords)until I saw the same site coming up in the results.

I didn't want to go with visual verification, but it looks like I will.