Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe most of these problems with Google started when Yahoo baited them with that 20 billion pages indexed “press releaseâ€. While Google said that only quality counted, in reality only a short time later, Google, remove the 8 billion pages indexed text from their home page and then all kinds of crap started showing up in their index. This “mine is bigger than yours†teenage game was bound to lead to problems for Google. I think someone high up in Google wanted to get their index to 20 billion as soon as possible too and that is a big part of these current problems. While I’ve seen bad updates from Google before, I’ve never seen this many problems happening all at the same time.
I don't think people investigated so much either. The yahoo google thing you mentioned. Correlation != causation. I think its more a matter of google behind the spammers; like MS is behind the hackers. The spammers/hackers are more creative, because they are motivated. Google/MS can only play catch up.
No this is beyond the spammers being more motivated IMHO. Google seems to be getting downright complacent and misplaced priorities. They seem all about the spin doctors and less about quality. It's like the whole thing with me finding 10 million pages of spam in 2 hours... it's so much that I found it as it is that they not only couldn't, but that they also tried to play it off like it was some random glitch that they quickly fixed. I mean, I even offered to write the bot that I used and just give it to them. They just ignored it though. -Michael
What makes you think they couldn't find it? What makes you think they weren't fully aware of the issue?
It's going to get to the point where every webmaster is going to spam Digg with spam articles about spam in Google, sort of like the Pixel craze, problem is many of these stories are going to be fabrications just to try to draw attention and traffic, you can only reinvent the wheel so many times folks! It's the latest craze, "Spam about Spam"
Just an update on this... well, it seems google de-indexed arefoundhere.com completely. So I guess they really did fix the problem. I've removed my script from the domain... hopefully google will re-index it. Anybody get their own scripts to work?
Speaking of the site operator misbehaving looks like the inanchor operator is busted too. Or have Google switched this off? I 've noticed it for about 10 days now.
So, have any of you guys got in to syndk8 yet??!! Rumor has it from some one in there that there is a lot of us that want in!! That it won't be until next month that there ready to let us in, to let them tar and feather me!! Looks like there currently making plans on how they can tar and feather me when I get in to the lions den!!!
Google has snitches working that forum already and they are de-indexing all the sites of webmasters that are members there!
To translate ACs post in to English...when you get in there...don't have a signature!!!! Now, if you have some competition...
Hey, I hear you used to have access to syndk8...until they banned you!! What's it like in there!!! And why would they bann you for defending white hat!!! Think they'll go easy on me!!
It sucks big time, like the others said in this thread, nothing special that you can't find by doing a simple search!
I never found much of interest there...heres a couple of comments I came across.... Over at digital point forums, I recall they won't let you post for 7 days, and even after that it was only in limited places, and then another 7(?) plus maybe 10 posts before you have site wide privelages. Something like that I believe. And this from the bosshog..... But, like dd says, Newbies buy stuff so i am not gunna kick them out because i need money to but drugs and whores. Can't find anything about Nintendo....yet
So are you thinking they left it in on purpose? I mean, yeah, alot of the sites I found were using Adsense, but still, that's a little tin foil hattish... -Michael
WAY over there at digital point forums, eh? What's that url again? Man, those rules really suck. /sarcasm
Ummm... I think he was quoting something he saw on syndk8. It's the whole context thing. Could be wrong though. -Michael
No. I'm suggesting they were aware of the problem but were trying to figure out how to repair it via the algorithms. Then when it hit the front pages, they no longer had that luxury and stuck in a quick patch or used manual intervention.
do you think because they are fixing this and the other domain also get the effect? ;( my website has been deindexing for 3 days