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46 commentsSunday, May 10, 2009

Google Results Polluted By Cybercrooks

Ranking change pending

46 Comments

Google takes on all new

Google takes on all new comers easily.

oh my..

this is pretty scary.. if google do nothing about it, the world wide web will be a wasteland. :(

go to google

all of that depends on the accuracy of the data is sought, because the machine is man-made then, of course, still many are not clear, therefore, must be many changes that must be done again for the search engine. I think google has been working well and become number one in the world

Update in progress?

Is this algorithm change under way? I have noticed some real changes on the SERPs and a lot of 'spammy' listings such as old auction listings and so forth have also started disappearing again. Got to hate looking for information and finding expired auctions =p

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Looks Scary

This looks very scary problem. Google must do something to prevent this.

Health Symptoms

Thats really amazing!

omg.. found back his daughter using google??.. i never though google are really that powerful because mostly the search result are seldom relevant.. the upper one is usually not what you looking for..

Scary Stuff

When we look for our keywords, even our domain name, most of the results are bogus. A recent search for a film video site brought up hundreds of innocent returns with the site name and info - all of them going to porn sites instead of the movie site. A real shame. Google has a real problem depending on machines and code against these people.

Thanks

Thanks to God to let Google come to existence

Nothing new...

Spam has always been an arms race and always will be. email spam, web spam, etc. maybe micropayments will ease it somewhat, but not as much as some would wish.

Hope...

Hope that Google will take inspired decision later and the new algorithm will not affect relevant pages.

I agree.. I hope Google

I agree.. I hope Google figures out how to combat this problem quickly and maintain user trust. So many of us depend on Google giving prompt reliable information both for bringing people to our website through search, and when we are searching. It's a shame that there are always those people that will try and take advantage of others through greed.

Who is it?

I wonder who is doing this. Seems like a lot of trouble just to sell a crappy little product, anybody suspect industrial sabotage? Yahoo, for example, would have much to gain from Google's downfall (Not suggesting Yahoo would stoop to that, they're not the only ones to benefit from Google's loss). I would be interested to see which search engines were NOT affected by the dodgy SEOers.

Quite bad

This seems to be a very scary problem.
If blackhat guys can easily manipulate the results then its definetly going to create chaos among searchers and will also deteroit the reputation and trusts people have in G.
Earlier also there was google bombing issue..
Seems like as long as google will rule, problems like this will occur again and again.

Googlleeeee

Google cannot do anything at large.
However u should remember that just like if there are virus there is antivirus too.

Google

Seems like as long as google rules? Doesn't matter who rules, there always an enemy.. if yahoo would be first, I'm sure they would experience even worth problems.. google is cool..

the amature

I am a simple soul with a small web site trying to attract business.I find that first I am overwhelmed by the professional payed adds.But more importantly by all the others who may well have paid significant amount of money to professionals just to get their site at the top of the "free" listings.
Why don't the search engines have a two tier structure where it is recognised that real amatures can get there pages listed without all the extremely complicated methods that have to be used to either "turn" on the Google alagorithm to their benefit or do it buy dint of size of their business with links and ads etc.

Don't lose hope

Hang in there, it is possible to rank high in Google without all the expensive services of the professionals (although I must admit that hiring pros when speed things up substantially). I was able to scratch and crawl my way to the top 10 on Gooble, MSN, and Yahoo by focusing attention on simple SEO techniques. Keep the faith, you can get there if you are patient. Good luck

I must agree with you.

I must agree with you. Everytime I'm trying to search something, there are so many irrelevant results. Definitely, google must do something about this matter in order for them to maintain the quality of their service.

business relay on Google

yes, this is very bad for businesses as they are depend more n more Google for online business. Google has to take some serious action about it and cleanup the result. ASAP.

Thanks
MYNEWSWIRE

Google is bloodless

Google stinks because you cannot contact them live !
I have an adsense account and they never even respond to E mails with nothing but canned responses !

IT's hit and miss with every site or blog i create!

NO warnings your going to get account disabled just BAM you get that E mail without any chance to fix the problem or even defend yourself!

SO far i got hit with one virus downloading a software for viewer
on a site it totally busted IE and i had to do the reinstall of windows
vista !

Glad i read this article now i will just be careful when seraching google !

I am glad that you brought

I am glad that you brought forward this information especially since most people are using Google nowadays to look for information online. Personally, I rely quite a lot on Google to help me find information but so far I have not had such problems yet; probably because the information I was looking for was not very popular and worthwhile enough for the blackhat to do something about it.

But now that I read this post of yours, I do recall a few incidences where I was Googling for some information and I have some links appearing to have malwares. However, I have AVG installed in my system and they have this option to check link validity and safeness. Thus I was informed before I even clicked on the malware links that appeared at the top of the search results.

Glad to hear that Google is doing something about this. In fact I feel that Google have a social responsibility to do something about this since so many people are using it to do searches.

Google needs to clean the sites!

I have been reading fan-fictions online and the first thing I went to was google!!! Man! Am I mad at them! They got 3 viruses on one computer and 2 viruses on another!! And they are all from the same site!!Q!! So I don't know where to go to anymore!!!

If anyone knows a good site please message me!!!

Try AVG-free. It probably

Try AVG-free. It probably help you remove the virusses.

Are Link Building gonna be useless then?

So guys, do u think link building is gonna have next to nothing impact on PR then or what? I'm quaking in my boots. Arrrrggggggghhhhh.

This issue seems has been prosecuted

Thank you Jason,
It seems that this time big G has heard your inquiries...Trust is something that is in top 5 things that Google is preserving most.
I heard that a big Google's budget was to to combat this kind of scam and people doing tricky things with AdSense.

Congratulations again we all get better information anyways.

We All Suffer

The shame of it all is just like with most things, because of the actions of a few many will suffer. Hopefully this new way of selecting sites will somehow help the little people.

It takes money to make money and the same goes for people with big money using big tricks to get in front of the legitimate sites.

Hopefully this will cut down on the big benefits that the big cheaters rake in.

Enough is enough

Jason you have a point. Google must put a stop to this or they are doomed!

thank you for attempting to

thank you for attempting to make google a better place. keep up the good news and work!!

Re: Google will overcome

Just as it has with other spam Google will figure out a way to combat it. If not they will go down like Alta Vista.

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