Archive for the 'Spam' Category

Spam, confusion, and annoyance - welcome to SearchWiki

Posted by rob on November 25th, 2008 filed in Google, Spam

Even though SearchWiki is a very annoying service that adds clutter to the otherwise useful Google SERPs, I have to give it credit for a new hobby - SearchWiki comment watching.
The comments are filled with helpful tidbits like “test”, “this is good”, “where does this comment appear?” and other enlightening information.
Beyond TechCrunch’s porn spam, I [...]

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Electronics reviews = spam

Posted by rob on November 19th, 2008 filed in Google, Spam

Google’s search results for product reviews truly suck hard, particularly in the electronics vertical. To be fair, so do Yahoo’s.
Recently I’ve bought a laptop, a new PC (custom built), and a new TV, and like many customers I like to read impartial expert reviews of products before I buy them. For cheaper products I don’t [...]

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Over-powerful domain authority in Google

Posted by rob on September 10th, 2008 filed in Google, Spam

Some interesting results for the query [airline tickets] in Google today - at numbers 3 & 4 there are 2 results from Bebo, the well-known airline ticket supplier.

Hang on, Bebo - isn’t that a social networking site rather than an airline ticketing company? As outlined by Trend Labs recently in a post entitled Spam Early [...]

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Free domain? Free hosting? Yup!

Posted by rob on February 4th, 2008 filed in Spam

Awesome:
Free hosting
Free domain(s)
I have to say thanks for the tip off from some rather unsubtle comment spam sent to this very blog

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