Google Spammng their own Engine? (again..)
Source Title:
Google's Spam -- an Adsense Conflict of Interest
Google's Spam -- an Adsense Conflict of Interest
Source Url:
http://www.ihategoogle.org/?postid=298
http://www.ihategoogle.org/?postid=298
Story Text:
Volatilegx has a interesting post about Google filling their own SERPS with shite which summarizes another thread. It would appear, at least from the post, that Google are playing games of some sort, but what sort im not 100% on.
It's a convoluted tail of redirects, ownership and shite content. The simple version goes like this:
Volatilegx has a interesting post about Google filling their own SERPS with shite which summarizes another thread. It would appear, at least from the post, that Google are playing games of some sort, but what sort im not 100% on.
It's a convoluted tail of redirects, ownership and shite content. The simple version goes like this:
- Bot = PreveiwGenerator.org
- Which Redirects to apps5.oingo.com - Owned by Google, and full of shite
- Oingo itself, redirects to http://www.appliedsemantics.com/ which again is owned by Google
Weird eh?
He conludes by saying
Is Google creating spammy pages filled with Adwords/Adsense ads with little other content? Are they running a spider that is perpetrating log spam? Are they truly interested in weeding the spam out of their index?
and pointing out that oingo is not actual indexed at all, so maybe they're just filling rival engines with shite :)
- Y! MyWeb
Domain Park
Looks G's using it's Domain Park version of Adsense to make a few bucks:
apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpark/...
Google bought Oingo
Big deal. Conspiracy theories abound in the SEO world, and look at the source of this one: WMW.
'Nuff said.
d'oh.
d'oh.
seems to me 'scraper' is the
seems to me 'scraper' is the 'new spam'.
If I don't like it is is a scraper site.
anyway it is simply an expired domain for which google's domainpark program is about 18months old.
I don't think this is spam
It's just a parked domain. I don't think that qualifies as a spammer site. Since it is all ads, there is nothing to "fool" a search engine. And yes, Google has had a domain parking service for quite some time so this is nothing new.
Not Labeled
But those ads, while labeled "Sponsored Links," don't have the standard "Ads by Google" (or Gooooooogle) as far as I can tell. Isn't hiding that bit against the TOS?
Nope, this is Domain Park,
Nope, this is Domain Park, totally different rules.
false alarm
Actually this turned out to be a false alarm, although I'll bet the person with the parked domain who is doing the log spamming would be kicked from the program if Google found out about it.