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It doesn't matter whether our theories are right or not. The facts are 1) Google search results are full of spam. 2) Many of the spam sites have been reporte
by rorrr 16y ago
It doesn't matter whether our theories are right or not.
The facts are
1) Google search results are full of spam.
2) Many of the spam sites have been reported (I reported a few myself) and blogged/written about for years.
What can one conclude from that? I think there are 2 possible explanations
1) It's not in Google's financial interests
2) Google is failing at filtering spam
I doubt it's true, because simply banning the top 1000 spammy domains would cut more than 99% of the search spam. It's something that an intern can do.
If Google wants a pure algorithmic solution instead, well, good luck to them. I think until AI is smarter than humans, such solution doesn't exist. Spammers can always find loopholes in algorithms.
- TeHCrAzY 16y agoI doubt they are failing at spam, at least not in the common sense. My gmail account received 1000's of spam emails a week, and it's a rare for one to pass the filter, and even rarer for a genuine email to not. It most likely a much simpler explanation: web results with content explicitly generated for a specific target search string is simply getting closer and closer to being actual genuine content, and thus harder and harder to differentiate and filter.