A BBC News front-page article named Google to stay focused on search brings the issues of search spam to the public. The article explains how seventy-percent of Google’s focus in on Web search and then goes into several paragraphs on how search spam is a huge issue. The article quotes Douglas Merrill, of Google engineering, saying, “Spam is an arms race,” explaining that “spammers are highly motivated. There is a lot of money at stake.”
BBC News Features Article On Google Search Spam
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