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"This would solve a lot of people's complaints in one fell swoop." And doing this would spawn a lot of people's complaints in one fell swoop. If you owned a s
by coffee 16y ago
"This would solve a lot of people's complaints in one fell swoop."
And doing this would spawn a lot of people's complaints in one fell swoop.
If you owned a site, and created enemies, they could band together and flag your site as spam.
- emef 16y agoI don't think you understood his suggestion. "Banning" a site would be local to your signed-in google account, not a global ban from results (which would indeed suffer the backfire you mentioned.)
- coffee 16y agodoh! You are totally correct. I completely missed that. Maybe I should drink a bit of coffee and wake up ;) Although... I have a suspicion that at some point it would effect non-logged in users. Many logged in users banning a site is a signal that may effect the global results. Maybe in the same way marking spam in Gmail...
- scotty79 16y agoNow they can bot-click your adsense ads to cause google to ban you. If you are ad sponsored this effectively puts you out of business.