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CommentMonday, November 5, 2007

Google Advanced Search Spam Poses Threat

3 Comments

By Spam Fighter (WPN reader) - Mon, 11/19/2007 - 11:53

How to report Google search URLs as spam

Google has a web page that looks like the place to report these URLs, and they will disactivate the URLs so these spammer techniques won't work. Of course, it's a never-ending battle (called whack-a-mole) because the spammers will just find another query to try.

But at least we can all fight them and do our part by reporting the "advanced search spam" urls here:

http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html

By Bob (WPN reader) - Tue, 11/06/2007 - 07:59

Fooling Google

It's taken them this long to realize that the spammers have been doing this? I saw it happening in spam months ago. I'd have tried to contact Google, but they ignore all complaints about spammers on their system, spammers using Googlepages, spammers with Gmail reply addresses and spammers posting through Google Groups so I just ignored it. Lots of people are saying Google's got the arrogance Microsoft used to be famous for, and I agree.

By Spam fighter (WPN reader) - Mon, 11/19/2007 - 11:59

I agree this is old news...

This isn't a new technique. It's sad when media jump on some "bandwagon" that's months old... anyway...

Here are a couple of useful Google links I have acquired over the few weeks I have been fighting spam:

Report blogspot.com spam redirects: http://help.blogger.com/?page=contact

Report Gmail abuse (such as advance-fee fraud not sent through Gmail, but requesting replies to Gmail addresses):
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=abuse_other

Report spam originating from within Gmail's network (spam headers are all from internal gmail sites):
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=abuse_spoofin...

Report Google search engine-related spam:
http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html