Comment Spam, A Personal Tale
March 4, 2004
In Search Engine Watch today, a personal tale of how a memorial website was defaced by spambots posting PageRank-gaming comments.
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“ All that would happen is that they'd all die sooner. SO... what's needed are new economic paradigms ...”» - says
“ I bet it was a bug too, but if it was intentional, it failed miserably with me. I was annoyed that A ...”» - says
“ I suspect part of what's happening is the substitution effect is finally becoming very clear with re ...”» - says
“ I don't think Google will shrink in annual revenue(ofcourse barring this recession period), what we ...”» - says
“ Me Too! At 58 years old I've lived this transition. When I stop to think of how this explosion of ...”» - says
“ I agree, John -- and it's interesting to note that ICANN is now in the process of once and for all s ...”» - says
“ It was a technical problem, not a conspiracy. I stopped getting email alerts for a while; there was ...”»
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One hopes that news is getting round that comment spamming doesn't help your pagerank any more. This quote from Googleguy seems pretty explicit.
Thanks for that link, Ian. It's nice to see that Google is finally doing something about this.
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