Google appear to be spamming themselves

Britney Spam page found in Googles own search results on a Google page.

[waynne]

I came across this page which offers no real information has small text and loads of repetitions [google.com...]

I thought I could copy the text and set up an amazon link to BS latest CD - do you think the duplicate content checker will pick it up or do you reckon I'll get through? They have a pretty high page rank on this page perhaps high Page Rank negates the spam filters.

[ogletree]

This page is part of their recruiting effort. If you notice at the top of the page you will see a link that says “Return to Google's jobs pages”. On that page you will see a paragraph that says “Practical application of machine-learning techniques” Under that they use the Britney Spears to show how often something is misspelled. Britney Spears being the most searched thing on G it is probably the most misspelled thing on G.

[dmedia]

Hey now that's pretty interesting. That page on Google does indeed come up in top few in SERPs if you actually search for any of the Britneys(sp) .. (along with some other sites that appear to be exploiting this)

If you or I did this, I believe it would be called spamming .. what is it called when Google does it wrapped in the guaze of "educational information" ;)

[bakedjake]

Whoa, folks. Take off the tin hats.

It's a page G uses to demonstrate all of the misspellings it receives for Britney Spears.

It's a page linked from another page. Google crawled it as it does with any other page.

Jeez.

[outrun]

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[skipfactor]

Yea, I doubt Google really wants to recruit people who can't spell Britney Spears (or those that are even searching that term for that matter); the conversion rate on this page must be horrible. ;)

[ogletree]

If you type in a few of those terms you will see that some SEO's beat out G. As far as the algo is now that is not spamming. It works quite well.

[PatrickDeese]

rather than just copying the list you might want to make "content" pages dedicated to each mispelling.

That seems to work best. cough

[ogletree]

Well of course. I was not going to say how to do it better.

[killroy]

The question remains... what ads will adsense show on such a page? Will it convert? And does it pass PR and/or risk penalizing whole IP ranges?

SN

[PatrickDeese]

> The question remains... what ads will adsense show on such a page? Will it convert? And does it pass PR and/or risk penalizing whole IP ranges?

I don't think anyone optimizing for mispellings of Ms. Spears is likely to be monetizing the traffic with Adsense.

[killroy]

Tounge was firmly in cheek.

SN

[martinibuster]

haha
recruiting bitney psears misspellers! Ogle, you crack me up.

Jake is right, that page is linked to from another page.