Google's Love/Hate Relationship With Spam

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Google's Love/Hate Relationship With Spam

08-13-2008, 11:09 AM,

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Google's Love/Hate Relationship With Spam

Quote:Google likes spam. Sounds surprising? Well, actually it does! Of all the spam that is generated, Google seems quite comfortable with 5% of the lot.

Now we all know that spam is bad, right? Wikipedia says, In the last few years, and due to the advent of the Google AdSense Web advertising program, scraper sites have proliferated at an amazing rate for spamming search engines. Open content sites such as Wikipedia are a common source of material for scraper sites.

It seems quite clear that scraping content is a type of spamming. Most people believe this, and Wikipedia confirms it. So even while Google wages war against 95% of the spam, why would it like even the remaining 5%? ...

full article: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/reaso...ship/7483/

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