Comments on: The spam wars http://bloggasm.com/the-spam-wars Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:39:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Danny Goodman http://bloggasm.com/the-spam-wars/comment-page-1#comment-19989 Danny Goodman Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:15:33 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/the-spam-wars#comment-19989 Your suggestion about punishing spammers via search engine removals unfortunately suffers from the assumption that an emai/IM spammer is building a brand via a domain name. Such brand building is the way legitimate businesses operate, but that's not how the worst email/IM spammers operate. They don't give a damn about the domain name. They register hundreds at a time (usually gibberish or nonsensical), and don't expect to use them for more than a week or two. Blog spammers do try to game search engines, but they tend to hide their pages within other blog sites, such as blogger.com. Q: Would Google remove a blogger.com URL from its database? A: Google owns blogger.com. Blogger.com's response to removing spamvertised blog pages has been zero so far. Your suggestion about punishing spammers via search engine removals unfortunately suffers from the assumption that an emai/IM spammer is building a brand via a domain name. Such brand building is the way legitimate businesses operate, but that’s not how the worst email/IM spammers operate. They don’t give a damn about the domain name. They register hundreds at a time (usually gibberish or nonsensical), and don’t expect to use them for more than a week or two.

Blog spammers do try to game search engines, but they tend to hide their pages within other blog sites, such as blogger.com. Q: Would Google remove a blogger.com URL from its database? A: Google owns blogger.com. Blogger.com’s response to removing spamvertised blog pages has been zero so far.

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