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Bambarbia Kirkudu!  
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From: Bambarbia Kirkudu!
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:16:39 -0700
Local: Sat, Jun 30 2007 11:16 pm
Subject: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?
Adam wrote:

    * Please submit spam reports to http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html.
    * Or better yet -- if you have a Webmaster Tools account -- you
can report spam directly to Google. On the Dashboard, click Tools, and
then click Report spam in our index.  Note that you don't need to have
an XML sitemap in order to create an account, and you can typically
create a Webmaster Tools account in under two minutes.  Spam reports
sent via Webmaster Tools carry more weight than reports via our
unauthenticated (open) spam report page.

It smells bad, isn't it?
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From: Bambarbia Kirkudu!
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:19:54 -0700
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?
Can Google handle 'Spam Report' from spammers? Why it should rely on
'smellers'? That's funny. I'll publish link to my site on 750000 blogs
tomorrow. I don't care. Learn Math, and don't forget about your PhD.
Have a fun!

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From: cass-hacks
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:37:36 -0700
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?
Spam reports are manually reviewed and if one were to file numerous
false spam reports, one would likely find their future, as well as any
yet to be reviewed, spam reports ignored.

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From: ivb
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:18:05 -0000
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?
Spam reports are manually reviewed, by whom?

Why review it manually if you can have the algorithm do the job?

If the algorithm finds an unnatural behavior it can proceed
accordingly!

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From: cass-hacks
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:36:53 -0700
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?

> Spam reports are manually reviewed, by whom?

I think it safe to assume, by Google.  ;-)

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/03/update-on-spam-rep...

> Why review it manually if you can have the algorithm do the job?

If the algorithms were doing their job, there wouldn't be a need for
spam reports.

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 More options Jul 1 2007, 6:40 am
From: ivb
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:40:15 -0000
Local: Sun, Jul 1 2007 6:40 am
Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?
The algorithm is doing its job!

I do not think you will tell this to Adam or Matt that the algorithm
is not doing its job...

It takes time for the algorithm to take effect of what it learns.
It is not instantaneous as you would like it to be.

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From: Phil Payne
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:18:35 -0700
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?

> Why review it manually if you can have the algorithm do the job?

To spot cases not detected by the algorithm and thus know how to
improve it.

 
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From: Phil Payne
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:20:23 -0700
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?

> It is not instantaneous as you would like it to be.

It's not just not instantaneous - I strongly suspect it's asynchronous
and quite separate from crawling. indexing and searching.

 
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 More options Jul 1 2007, 7:38 am
From: Data
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:38:21 -0700
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?
I have reported a spam site recently by this method. Just be patient,
it doesn't happen overnight - to say the least!
Regards
Data

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 More options Jul 1 2007, 7:43 am
From: ivb
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:43:36 -0000
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?
You can try my Spam list, there some really nasty domains on it, and
to be assosiated with them ,wil not be nice for the offender.

PHSDL

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From: Bambarbia Kirkudu!
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:08:30 -0700
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?
What is spam anyway?

There are quite a lot of software around, and you can easily develop
your own spam-buster too.

The truth is that all search engines have a constraint: size of HTML
is limited, it "grabs" in most cases first 65536 bytes only. "SPAM" is
usually below a 128Kb-256Kb mark of such long dead pages, and it is
not seen by Google anyway. You can find millions of dead pages (hm...)
allowing to post to everyone, without limitations, but Google can
handle only first 100 links at most, and index only first 65Kb... more
or less...

Thanks

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From: cass-hacks
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:48:40 -0700
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?

> The truth is that all search engines have a constraint: size of HTML
> is limited, it "grabs" in most cases first 65536 bytes only.

That may have been the truth at some point in history but it isn't
now, at least for Google.

Do a search on the following string, minus the parenthesis's
("Download the demo files" cass-hacks)

There will likely only be a single result with a "repeat the search
with the omitted results included." link displayed.  Click the repeat
search link and then take a look at the second result.

The phrase "Download the demo files" is located at the bottom of a 76k
portion of that page with the entire page being around 91k.

As far as I have seen, there is no longer any limit as to how much
search engines will parse and index.

> but Google can handle only first 100 links at most, and index only first 65Kb.

Actually, wrong on both counts.

 
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 More options Jul 4 2007, 7:55 pm
From: ivb
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:55:47 -0000
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?
I had a page 300kb
With 3000 links and Google indexed the page and crwaled all the links!

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 More options Jul 4 2007, 8:12 pm
From: Phil Payne
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:12:55 -0700
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?

> > but Google can handle only first 100 links at most, and index only first 65Kb.
> Actually, wrong on both counts.

Agreed.  Again it's a competitive issue.  Google might like to impose
limits, but there are other search engines around.

 
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 More options Jul 4 2007, 8:36 pm
From: djc
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:36:58 -0700
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?
I have some pages that are 150~250k and they get indexed.  I have
index's with over 500 links.  Google crawled them all, just not all at
once.

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From: Bambarbia Kirkudu!
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:27:07 -0700
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?
Google crawled them all just because it found links in top-100 anchors
on other pages. Can you check Webmaster Tools and ensure that Links
page contain 500 outgoing links from an index page pointing to
different pages?
Sure, it is very difficult: Google Links shows only incoming links to
a single page, it does not show 500 outgoing links from /
my_site_index.html:

"This table provides a list of internal pages that LINK TO
http://www.tokenizer.org/?q=APRO"

-1.

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From: Bambarbia Kirkudu!
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:29:47 -0700
Local: Fri, Jul 6 2007 10:29 am
Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?

>With 3000 links and Google indexed the page and crwaled all the links!

See my previous post. You can't prove that Google counted 3000 links
from a single page.
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From: Bambarbia Kirkudu!
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:40:29 -0700
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?

> The phrase "Download the demo files" is located at the bottom of a 76k
> portion of that page with the entire page being around 91k.

My point is: size is limited. At least for HTML.
It could be 64Kb 10 years ago, it could be 128Kb last year, and 256Kb
now. But it is limited, it must be limited in order to avoid Denial-of-
Service attacks from some websites.
As a sample, Nutch search engine has default setting 64Kb which could
be changed via configuration, and it does have such limitation by a
reason. It is used by Yahoo now, for some searches (Creative Commons).

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From: cass-hacks
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:42:37 -0700
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?

> Google crawled them all just because it found links in top-100 anchors
> on other pages. Can you check Webmaster Tools and ensure that Links
> page contain 500 outgoing links from an index page pointing to
> different pages?

Actually you can.  If it is up to date, which is questionable at best,
the "Internal" Links section of the webmaster tools will show the
count of internal links that it knows about.

Just add up the total links you know to be on the site and the total
internal links Google shows and compare.

I'm curious though, where are you getting the information that search
engines ignore anything after the first 100 links?

> "This table provides a list of internal pages that LINK TO http://www.tokenizer.org/?q=APRO"

That link is supposed to show what?

It's just an online shopping search engine that someone made, no?

I don't see the connection between that and Google, Yahoo, MSN etc,
could you explain please?

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From: cass-hacks
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:43:50 -0700
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?

> See my previous post. You can't prove that Google counted 3000 links
> from a single page.

Can you prove it didn't?

I'm curious as to why you think there is a limit.

Craig


 
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From: Bambarbia Kirkudu!
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:48:39 -0700
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?

>> "This table provides a list of internal pages that LINK TO http://www.tokenizer.org/?q=APRO"
>That link is supposed to show what?

I simply copy-pasted text from Google Webmaster Tools. I can't prove
anything I can only guess (sometimes); I am a search engine developer
(mostly with open-source: Lucene, Nutch, ...).

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From: djc
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:56:45 -0700
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?
This isn't exactly spam but I'm wondering if any of you know or have
an idea what the motive is behind it.

Note: These are not the links that appear on hacked sites

There seem to be what I call "crawl and run sites".  They exist for a
very short time and are nothing more than links to other sites BUT
none of the links are valid.  All they seem to do is target domains
with keywords in the links but to pages that don't exist.  If these
sites were link farms, they'd link to valid URLs.  If they were just
trying to pickup visitors for AdSense, they last longer that just
getting crawled.  Google seems to be the target for most SEO scams but
I really can't think these types of sites would even make it into
Google so I am thinking it's some scheme used to fool another search
engines, just clueless as to which one it would be.  It's rare they
last long enough to make it to any engines index.  Those where I have
finally been able to find any of the crazy URLs appear to be some half-
ass useless engines, usually in some country you didn't even know
existed.

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 More options Jul 6 2007, 10:59 am
From: ivb
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:59:51 -0000
Local: Fri, Jul 6 2007 10:59 am
Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?
Google tools does not show the whole story.
You have to do a site: command.

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Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:12:21 -0700
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?
Yes,

but site: command can not prove that Google counted 5000 outgoing
links from a single page. 5000 pages were crawled, and site: command
shows it; are we sure that we have "pointers" to those pages from a
single page only?

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From: ivb
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:14:30 -0000
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Subject: Re: I found spam in Google's search results. Where can I report it?
That was the only page indexed. It was a site Map.

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