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...
Below we'll discuss the less-spammy applications of +1 marketing that an average business could engage in proudly (or at least, without looking over their shoulder to make sure the Google+ police aren’t watching).
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
People Search Google For Dialing The Police. Google search and search engine spam - Official Google Blog Social Media Links and SEO -- Spam Ye Not! Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Jan.to 22, as reported by...
Korean Police Say Google Collected Private Data Illegally - PCWorld Blekko Launches Spam Clock To Keep Pressure On Google - Search Engine Land Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Jan.to 8, as reported by Search...
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 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.
This would be like trying to police Yankee Stadium or Fenway Park and throw out people who are cursing. But could you imagine trying to police this growing mob? I recently received some spam messages from someone through LinkedIn who wanted me to...
I want to scream to the spam police at the major search engines. No, a hit counter Web site ranks in Google's top 20 results for "search engine optimization," as of the writing of this column. Then, I came across a "competitor" (I don't really...
Using standards to police ourselves translates to predictable results. As I said there, I don't think there is a need to police standards, more to outline them so customers can have an idea of what to look for as well as new people in our space...
Google isn't even the Internet police. One of the people involved in the comment spam fighting problem within Google was an unknown engineer named Matt Cutts, now Google's famous, unofficial chief Web spam fighter.
In other words, Google knows that it could potentially lose customers at any time, so it will self-police itself. Anderson of Wired asks about the impact AdSense has on fueling spam across the web -- search spam, comment spam, trackback spam and...
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. Dinged For Doorway Spam - BMW Germany is found to be employing doorway...
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.
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...
They all employ legions of "spam police" who work hard to try to keep spam out of the indexes, or eliminate it if it manages to creep past the junk-detection algorithms. How Long Does It Take For Search Engines To Remove Spam Sites?
Police arrest man for allegedly setting up fake Yahoo Japan Web site. And with Google operating one of the biggest blogging services, it's not surprising that Blogger will be host to a few search spam sites.
How about letting anyone add any link to any ODP category, while the editors serve as Wikipedia editors seem to do, as high-end police force to keep spam out. OK, maybe the ODP could be restructured where anyone could tag pages based on the ODP...
New "Link Police" in Google Algorithm? Has Google finally said 'enough is enough' with link spam? AdWords Allows Site Specific Targeting Search Engine Watch Forums The Future: Stuff I've Seen (SIS) Search Engine Watch Forums
Not much, fortunately, but we occasionally have to police out the irrelevant link or the link hidden in a period or comma. BTW, this is Google's problem from Dave Winer, a short note on trying to deal with referer spam, which he feels ultimately...
