Panda update put a dent in it, but do we have to rely on Google to constantly police us? If we're seen as a group who huddles to protect our own rather than proactively identifying and discrediting spam and fake content, we'll be held in contempt...
Google may have breached Australia's Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act, but the Australian Federal Police won't prosecute, saying the chances of a successful prosecution are "low. Google Spam Czar Matt Cutts Calling For Questions...
In an ideal world, social search engines would police themselves from spam the same way social bookmarking sites and networks do—by counting on their user base. The theory of allowing users to remove obvious spam and to optimize results pages based...
Rules Require Effective SpamPolice: Debates among marketers of what's
search spam continue, but the search engines themselves aren't exactly helpful
in clarifying things. Dinged For Doorway Spam - BMW Germany is found to be employing doorway...
Rules Require Effective SpamPolice - From 2004, revisits how search
engines have various spam rules but also how they don't disclose if someone's
been yanked from an index, something that would probably help site owners.
The list changes over time,
based on events such as the recent police shootings in the southern town of If you're removing material from search
results for various reasons -- spam, government censorship, whatever -- disclose
that everywhere, not...
Blather found itself running afoul of the Google advertising police, who pulled its ads for because the site had content that "advocated against George Bush. However, some of the methods they use to obtain top positions are considered to be spam by...
The Search Engine SpamPolice, Part 2 SearchDay, May 30, 2002 http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0530-spamcops2.html The Search Engine SpamPolice, Part 1 SearchDay, May 29, 2002 http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0529...
The Search Engine SpamPolice, Part 2 SearchDay, May 30, 2002 http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0530-spamcops2.html The Search Engine SpamPolice, Part 1 SearchDay, May 29, 2002 http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0529...
The Search Engine SpamPolice, Part 2 SearchDay, May 30, 2002 http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0530-spamcops2.html The Search Engine SpamPolice, Part 1 SearchDay, May 29, 2002 http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0529...
In a Search Engine Strategies session entitled "The Search Engine SpamPolice," representatives from search engines Inktomi, Google, FAST Search, and web directories LookSmart and the Open Directory Project explored the issue of spamming and...
This may help minimally with some crawler-based search engines, but there were also rumblings at the "SpamPolice" session of the last Search Engine Strategies conference that the crawlers are beginning to discriminate against exceptionally long...
The Search Engine SpamPolice SearchDay, Jan.http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0115-spam-police.html We don't like spam! Three prominent anti-spam crusaders pull no punches when describing common mistakes that will automatically banish...
The Search Engine SpamPolice SearchDay, Jan.http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0115-spam-police.html We don't like spam! Three prominent anti-spam crusaders pull no punches when describing common mistakes that will automatically banish...
In a session entitled "The SpamPolice," representatives from Google, Inktomi, and FAST explored the issue of spamming the search engines. Page spam, which is material that is not intended to be seen by endusers.
Nor is the FTC planning to police all types of spam. We can't police all this ourselves," Cohen said. The FTC's action is a big deterrent against the worst type of spam, that which attempts to mislead users.
Nor is the FTC planning to police all types of spam. We can't police all this ourselves," Cohen said. The FTC's action is a big deterrent against the worst type of spam, that which attempts to mislead users.
Nor is the FTC planning to police all types of spam. We can't police all this ourselves," Cohen said. The FTC's action is a big deterrent against the worst type of spam, that which attempts to mislead users.
In this case, the real issue is what happens when someone is actively trying to mislead consumers into thinking they are reaching another company and who should be responsible for taking action -- the search engines, the site owners, the police...