[Article] Search Engines Spam

Encouraging Search Engine Spam

,----[ Introduction ]

The commercial Web search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Search, Ask, etc.)
are far from perfect. To be effective, most information retrieval systems
must strike a balance between precision and recall. Irrelevant results
inevitably appear in search engine results. Irrelevant results,
sometimes referred to as false positives, are actually a normal
occurrence, though I wouldn't base my Web site business on search
engine errors.

Which got me thinking. As much as I don't respect businesses that
deliberately choose to exploit commercial search engines, these
businesses are only partially to blame for the proliferation of search
engine spam. Before search engine representatives criticize SEO (define)
and SEM (define) experts for exploiting the search engines, -perhaps
they should look in the mirror. Search engines are actually part of
the problem.
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http://www.clickz.com/experts/search...le.php/3603906

On Mon, 08 May 2006 14:58:30 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups (AT) schestowitz (DOT) com> wrote:

Encouraging Search Engine Spam

,----[ Introduction ]
| The commercial Web search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Search, Ask, etc.)
| are far from perfect. To be effective, most information retrieval systems
| must strike a balance between precision and recall. Irrelevant results
| inevitably appear in search engine results. Irrelevant results,
| sometimes referred to as false positives, are actually a normal
| occurrence, though I wouldn't base my Web site business on search
| engine errors.
|
| Which got me thinking. As much as I don't respect businesses that
| deliberately choose to exploit commercial search engines, these
| businesses are only partially to blame for the proliferation of search
| engine spam. Before search engine representatives criticize SEO (define)
| and SEM (define) experts for exploiting the search engines, -perhaps
| they should look in the mirror. Search engines are actually part of
| the problem.
`----

http://www.clickz.com/experts/search...le.php/3603906

Shari Thurow. Again. I quote;

"Many AdSense sites aren't Web sites that contain legitimate, useful
content. Many are garbage. My first thought when I see AdSense on a
Web site is, "OK, where's the spam?" Just yesterday, I was viewing a
Web site with all of this supposed great travel content and discovered
the word "mesothelioma." I wasn't aware mesothelioma had anything to
do with travel. Sure enough, the site was part of an extensive link
farm (which I promptly turned in to the Google, Yahoo!, MSN Search,
and Ask spam cops)."

One wonders if she sent it with the alert; "Hey guys! This site is
making BUCKS/MOOLAGH/DOUGH for all you people!" Obviously they all ran
to stop it immediately.

Cheerleader SEO.

BB


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Big Bill wrote:

One wonders if she sent it with the alert; "Hey guys! This site is
making BUCKS/MOOLAGH/DOUGH for all you people!" Obviously they all
ran
to stop it immediately.

Cheerleader SEO.

BB

Cut them some slack, Bill. In most outrageous of cases they do pull the
plug on the AdSense account which effectively pulls the plug on the site
itself. Occasionally the site still bounces around the SERPs for many
months after that though.

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