Google Webmaster Central and the Google Search Quality team have a new ally in the global fight against Web spam, cloaking, paid links, link farms and other non-sanctioned schemes: the Security Group at the University of Cambridge.
The New York Times, CNET, InformationWeek, and 52 other Google News sources missed the significance of Microsoft's new Research Lab in Cambridge, Mass.headed by Jennifer Chayes and her husband, Christian Borgs.
It looks like Google's shopping around for space in Boston or nearby Cambridge. Google Wants Your Spam ReportsThe Google Search Quality Team posted an update on spam reporting, detailing what Google does with the spam reports.
Speeches, Lectures, and More Added to BlinkxTV Database - As of today Blinkx is making hundreds of hours of material keyword searchable from Harvard, Princeton and Cambridge, UC Berkeley, Middlebury College, Columbia University, Washington State...
WAIM Cambridge Meeting, September 2001 http://www.webpr.co.uk/waim/moredetails.asp? An associated "Emerging Standards" page from Clay makes clearer his opinion that cloaking is a "bad practice" He also defines some examples of linkspam that he...
WAIM Cambridge Meeting, September 2001 http://www.webpr.co.uk/waim/moredetails.asp? What I took away is this: if you are using a system of any type to deliver content to humans that is different than what a search engine spider sees, that's...