Google Spam Filtering Gone Bad
I believe I've uncovered the cause of the "Google NACK", a problem where Google is returning no or very few results for certain combinations of search terms. I conjecture it is a consequence of trying to eliminate spam search results, but instead wrongly eliminating all subsequent results. Read:
Google Spam Filtering Gone Bad
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/google-spam.php
Abstract: This report describes a problem which caused Google to return very few, or no, results for particular combinations of search terms. It is almost certain this is a consequence of search results being post-processed by spam-defense which has gone awry.
Feel free to verify my methodology. Google has an incentive to rapidly patch any publicized examples.
[Hmm, maybe I should go into "Google studies", Google doesn't sue people!]
By Seth Finkelstein |
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on October 07, 2003 03:37 PM
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