Tag: Spam

Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta Discusses Search Quality, Filtering, Zorro Update
Blekko, the alternative search engine that aims to challenge Google and Bing by reducing spam and low quality content in search results via huma...
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Could Botnets Inflate Search Engines’ Query Counts?
Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of the DuckDuckGo search engine had an interesting...
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Exclusive Interview with Man Who Is Suing Facebook over Customer Support
In terms of the Internet, calling someone a spammer is about the lowest jab a person can give, especially if the accused denies the claims. Dav...
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Royal Wedding Brings Out the Cyber Criminals
Cyber criminals are exploiting the world's fascination with the British Royal Wedding, which is taking place on Friday. They're using the attention the event is getting to bolster...
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TripAdvisor’s Email List Breached
TripAdvisor, one of the top travel review websites around, released a statement today that warns its members o...
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Blekko Flags More Than A Million Domains As Spam
Blekko has launched a new AdSpam algorithm it says is the first of its kind created to find spam rather than rank results. The algorithm is aimed at flagging pages which are spa...
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FTC Cracks Down On Mortgage Spammer
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said today it has asked a federal judge to shut down a company that allegedly sent people millions of spam text messages. The...
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More Link Spam Examples in Google
The New York Times published an article near and dear to my heart over the weekend about JCPenny manipulating Google results as a result of paid links. Apparently it’s ne...
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Goodmail Comes to an End
Goodmail Systems will shut down this month, according to Direct Marketing News, who reports that CEO Daniel Dreymann says the main...
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Google, Bing, and Blekko Talk Content Farms and Search Quality
Matt Cutts from Google, Harry Shum from Bing, and Rich Skrenta from Blekko spoke on a panel today at the Farsight Summit. Much of the conversation was...
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Is Google’s Search Quality The Best It’s Ever Been?
In a post on the official Google Blog, Matt Cutts, head of the company's webspam t...
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Is Bing Growth Being Inflated By Shady Sites?
Article updated. See below. I have also posted...
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Blekko CEO On The “Useless Garbage” Of The Web
Late last week, Blekko launched the Spam Clock - the search engine's illustration of ho...
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Blekko Launches Spam Clock
Blekko, the recently launched search engine that relies on the community to help maintain relevancy, has launched "The Spam Clock"....
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