Canned Spam

Leftover 5 billion page spam?

[netmeg]

I came across this bunch of (what I consider to be) spam in MSN today - this guy has pushed down my rankings on a lot of key phrases. Somehow I thought there was just recently an update that was supposed to be watching out for this sort of thing. All the domains are registered to different names, but they were all taken out from the same registrar on the same day (June 15th - just over a month ago) within 4 minutes of each other - and I'm sure there's a whole bunch I haven't found yet. I'm wondering if this is a by product of the 5 billion pages that ended up in Google rather too quickly. These domains all go to the same place, but when I run the site command:

subdomain.spamdomain1.info shows 17,724 pages
subdomain.spamdomain2.info shows 19,581 pages
subdomain.spamdomain3.info shows 52,565 pages
subdomain.spamdomain4.info shows 15,890 pages
subdomain.spamdomain5.info shows 37,352 pages
subdomain.spamdomain6.info shows 13,763 pages

That's a whole lotta pages to get indexed so quickly (and I'm sure there's more domains I don't know about - this was just for one particular niche)

The thing is, I keep sending these in when I find them via the link on search.msn.com, but somehow, they never seem to disappear. Do those reports actually go somewhere and get acted upon?

[followgreg]

That's a good question, I myself submitted a few spammers and they never got ejected.

Although I would be surprised if MSN would work on a case per case basis, they want to get rid of spammers automatically IMO - So until they get there, spam will stick around.

[msndude]

They do get acted on, but sometimes more slowly than we'd like. (Especially lately.) Improving turnaround is another project we're working on.

It's true that individual examples are a drop in the bucket, but they're valuable nevertheless because we use them to study the problem and to test proposed solutions. By all means keep sending them.

Also, remember to send these things to [e-mail] -- the official channel to report spam and to complain if your site was wrongly blacklisted for spamming. Things sent only to me may or may not get acted on -- depending on other demands on my time. (Top priority goes to anything that looks like a bug we don't already know about.)

Hope that helps.