During the Spam Police session at SMX, Google's Matt Cutts and Bing's Sasi Parthasarathy both confirmed this. One Man's Spam Is Another's Good Result: Google's New Approach To Spam by Frank Watson & Thom Craver
In our highly social online environment, the true spam police is us. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter are the obvious examples, but there are also user reviews, comments in various forums, spam complaints, blog postings, news articles, and more.
I want to scream to the spam police at the major search engines. Did they not alternate/randomize their anchor text in their paid link enough? However, why is it that so many Web sites rank when they're blatantly participating in paid link activity?
Google isn't even the Internet police. Sebastian succinctly highlighted the apparent shortcomings of the tag, and expressed the frustration felt by many this tag was worthless when it came to stopping blog spam.
Rules Require Effective Spam Police: Debates among marketers of what's
search spam continue, but the search engines themselves aren't exactly helpful
in clarifying things. MSN Unite On Support For Nofollow Attribute For Links: The first...
Rules Require Effective Spam Police - 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.
New "Link Police" in Google Algorithm? Has Google finally said 'enough is enough' with link spam? By making reference to an article that triggers this discussion, members exchange ideas on link building at a more strategic level so that their...
Spam Rules Require Effective Spam Police High Rankings Forum Political spam as national pastime. A New Chinese Specialty: Spam. The search engine has ranked it according to it's own ranking mechanism and if it likes hidden text, link farms and...
Of course, search engines do police for spam. What's spam? But as I've written several times before, no search engine discloses what they've removed for spam reasons. Ryan's commentary sees one solution to spam as a lobbying for standards.
We love police blotters and little papers with extremely local coverage. We're also crawling government websites with "newsy" public information, such as police department crime alerts, health department reports, OSHA violation announcements, coast...
Escaping the net UK police are unable to close down extreme foreign websites. China joins spam fight.globetechnology.com Feb 6 2004 1:17AM GMT If a website uses one of your animated gif or jpeg banners to link to your site is it also necessary...
The Search Engine Spam Police, Part 2 SearchDay, May 30, 2002 http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0530-spamcops2.html The Search Engine Spam Police, Part 1 SearchDay, May 29, 2002 http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0529...
The Search Engine Spam Police, Part 2 SearchDay, May 30, 2002 http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0530-spamcops2.html The Search Engine Spam Police, Part 1 SearchDay, May 29, 2002 http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0529...
In a Search Engine Strategies session entitled "The Search Engine Spam Police," representatives from search engines Inktomi, Google, FAST Search, and web directories LookSmart and the Open Directory Project explored the issue of spamming and...
The Search Engine Spam Police 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 Spam Police 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 Spam Police," representatives from Google, Inktomi, and FAST explored the issue of spamming the search engines. Spam stuffing, which includes invisible text or link farming.
Nor is the FTC planning to police all types of spam. We can't police all this ourselves," Cohen said. We spend a lot of time and energy and resources combating spam. In turn, AltaVista marketing director Tracy Roberts said the FTC action will help...
Nor is the FTC planning to police all types of spam. We can't police all this ourselves," Cohen said. We spend a lot of time and energy and resources combating spam. In turn, AltaVista marketing director Tracy Roberts said the FTC action will help...
People who wonder why their own sites don't appear for a particular term are often the best spam police. If you do this, you may help improve the odds that those hiding spam behind IP delivery may be caught.