Google's index was hacked by a spammer??

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  1. stats

    stats Well-Known Member

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    #21
    is that a "news" for you or what ?

    the spam sites are everywhere and are ranked much higher then the legitimate sites .. try searching "viagra" or "tramadol" or "cialis" or any other high demand meds for example :)) you'll have lot of fun

    and there's nothing that can be done about it .. the only strategic cure to it is diversity of search engines .. ppl are giving a monopoly to G which is WRONG - no matter what G is or what G does or if it's G or any other company. You give someone a monopoly - you're the biggest looser at the end.
     
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    crizatu Well-Known Member

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    #22
    I have tried searching the keywords you are talking about and all results look normal to me. The query was done on google.com

     
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    jstroh Peon

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    #23
    It really boggles the mind that this isn't fixed immediately.
     
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    stats Well-Known Member

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    #24

    keep doing the search, and every day you'll see other results .. the moment i wrote this message there was at least 1 forum spam on an .edu domain showing up on the 1-st page of the search .. now it's not there ..

    at this moment i found one at the 4-th page, linking to setiathome.berkeley.edu/view_profile.php?userid=8718256 (which is now disabled)

    wait till tomorrow, see who comes forward next :)
     
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    #25
    oh and yes .. try searching for cialis .. i see this on first page


    and there's much more .. i'm not going to paste them all here
     
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    live-cms_com Notable Member

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    #26
    Well if there's 10x as many site spamming for those terms than legitimate sites it's hard for Google to catch them all.
     
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    M.IMRAN Well-Known Member

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    #27
    Cant' believe !!!!!!!!

    Google Hack !!!!!!!!!!! What the Heck !!!!! :eek:
     
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    sweetfunny Banned

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    #28
    This is alot different to the .cn issue, what you posted is just good old fashioned spam probably with a bit of modern Xrumer thrown in.
     
    sweetfunny, Oct 6, 2007 IP