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Google says my site is "similar to" an adult site

is there anything I can do but wait?

         

abates

9:33 pm on Oct 28, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I'm a semi-regular commenter on a particular blog. A while ago someone posted a spam comment on there as well. The owner deleted the spam, but obviously google already noticed it, because now when I search for sites related to mine, two porn URLs come up.

Is there anything I can do, or is it a matter of waiting for Google to pick up the fact that the spam comment is gone?

Alden.

plasma

1:29 am on Oct 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Related in terms of Google means:
A page exists that has a link to you and another link to a pr0n site.

There's nothing you can do about it.
Why would you want to do something about it, anyway?

The related search is useless and nobody uses it.

rfgdxm1

1:36 am on Oct 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

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>Why would you want to do something about it, anyway?

Exactly.

abates

2:13 am on Oct 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Righto - I won't worry about it then. :)

Cheers!

vitaplease

6:40 am on Oct 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

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from: [google.com...]

The Similar Pages feature can be used for many purposes. If you like a particular site's content, but wish it had more to say, Similar Pages can find sites with similar content with which you may be unfamiliar..

Google says it all, it might be unfamiliar..;)

abates, it used to be worse with guestbook signing.

My first reaction was: Did you turn on "SafeSearch Filtering"?
But strange, I see that in general, for similar searches it does not work?

I think you raise a good point.

Google needs to either refine their definition of similar pages in that it primarily has to do with link behaviour, or it should really put in some context check/safe filter. (of course it could also treat certain blog comments as it did guestbooks)