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The fact that most content farms generate the large majority of their revenue from Google Adsense ads placed around their content has been a problem for Google. Cutts has been unequivocal on Google’s policy: “Google absolutely takes action on sites that violate our quality guidelines regardless of whether they have ads powered by Google” he said back in January on the official Google blog.[techcrunch.com...]
[edited by: incrediBILL at 6:57 pm (utc) on Apr 1, 2011]
In an off the record phone conversation she said “Screw the webspam team,” and “It’s not like people are going to start using Bing.”
[edited by: engine at 11:34 am (utc) on Apr 1, 2011]
That is an incredibly stupid comment anyway: if it was not for the webspam team we would all be using Bing, because Google's SERPS would be flooded with spam.
That Tech Crunch article is an april fools day joke (Matt Cutts tweeted it yesterday saying as much). If the follow-up comments about it are also 'in' on the joke, ignore me ;-)
I hope it is a joke.
This time they'll notice nobody is laughing.
Pranks are funny, Panda is not.
[edited by: incrediBILL at 7:04 pm (utc) on Apr 1, 2011]
[edit reason] thread clean up [/edit]
i'm wondering how much google spent for this april fool joke
Companies and individuals have had good clean websites they have poured years of work into wiped out due to false positives.
IsApril Fool's Day being expanded into a week long event?Yep. Goofle week. :)
Good people are loosing good jobs by the thousands because of Panda. People with families, handicapped children and special needs.
Companies and individuals have had good clean websites they have poured years of work into wiped out due to false positives.
