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Google's official spam reporting extension: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/efinmbicabejjhjafeidhfbojhnfiepj?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/extensi

• benologist 16y ago
  Does that actually go anywhere or is it like all their other official channels of communication?
  • Matt_Cutts 16y ago
    Yes, clicking "Report spam" in the Chrome extension goes to our official spam report page and autopopulates the spam report form with that result.
    • jacobian 16y ago
      ... and then what happens?
      • Matt_Cutts 16y ago
        Two things: first, the data is used to improve our algorithms. Second, spam reports get 4x the weighting when we prioritize sites for manual spam investigation. That does mean that if you do a spam report on a page/site that only gets seen (say) once every six months, it might not get looked at on the manual side though, simply because there are other sites that are hurting users more. Giving spam reports 4x the weight compared to the sites that we autodetect is how we try to balance responding to outside feedback with spending our review cycles on the spam that impacts users most.
        • adrianbye 16y ago
          glad you're reading this thread matt.. maybe its time to give us both private and crowdsourced blacklists? experts exchange and ehow need to be gone by now and the data will be incredibly useful for your search quality
    • ChuckN 16y ago
      I don't necessarily want to report a garbage website as spam - it's just garbage for me. Anyway, the 'Report Spam' link doesn't always appear for me.