Google doesn't give a shit
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It's been quite a while since I wrote an open letter to Google. It's unfortunate but I never received a response from anyone at google while I know they actually responded to feedback I sent earlier. This is a bloody shame if you ask me. Lately, referrer spam and comment spam has gone to new heights. Yesterday for example my webserver reached a load of (I kid you not) 8.0 because of a spam attack. I've literally been blocking machines manually through my .htacccess file based on what I saw in my apache access log to keep the server sane. It's getting worse and worse and worse. I've received mails from people asking me how they can stop the spammers from stealing gigabytes of bandwidth. And what's yet even worse, Google doesn't give a rats ass about all of this it seems. No sites seem to be ever banned from the index, pagerank is still in effect and the've even started to allow evil search queries from hell such as this one again. At the time I wrote the open letter Google was actually blocking such queries which spammers use to find weblogs of a specific type in order to fire off their spam scripts. Right now it seems they feel it's fine again for spammers to use Google to find their targets...I'm starting to seriously dislike Google...
At 24 August '05 - 08:56 localhost wrote:
At 24 August '05 - 09:28 Marco wrote:
The blacklist itself doesn’t generate traffic, the spammers who fire off attacks with sometimes 10 requests per second do, unless you seriously use your .htaccess to block them.
At 25 August '05 - 10:54 weefselkweekje wrote:
Blocking queries is something they don’t do. And and basically they’re right. Considering how they basically control site popularity right now, blocking anything can have “butterfly effects”, and borders in censorship.
At 25 August '05 - 13:43 Marco wrote:
At 25 August '05 - 15:35 weefselkweekje wrote:
At 17 November '05 - 21:10 Angsuman Chakraborty wrote:
I have a small referrer list, infrequently updated which very successfully controls the referrer spamming.
At 29 July '06 - 21:47 Smokedog wrote:
At 07 September '06 - 02:32 Butterfly wrote:
I read an interesting paper the other day about the use of Latent Sematic Indexing (LSI) technology to actually determing if a comment is relevant to the blog topic, if it reaches a certain percentage then it is passed into the server to be used as a comment.
2 benefits: The more you right, the more the program has to go on to determine if your comment is legitimate and it also keeps the comment area filled with relevant information only. Basically whosever want a link has to work for it and add something useful to the blog before he is granted a link. Again very useful for information exchange.
This would be great if someone could come up with this, it might actually save the whole blog industry before the spam attack kills it
At 26 December '07 - 00:14 High Treason wrote:
You think google not block things? Well I searched for “3G 3 USB Modem unstable and unreliable” on google and itr said I woz a robot or virus and I had 2 do one of thos silly things werte a random picture with letters comes up and type them in so it knew I was real person not a program – I’m dislexic google i can’t read too well at da best of times but the random shapes – arrrrrgh!
Theoretically searching for – well – children in very bad situations involving sick minded adults (pervs) if you know what I am on about (it’s bad, I can’t even say it) (you understand i never have and never will try of course! because it is just sick! any person who does is sick and deserves to be shot!) you will get many results, well it’s context sensitive search, if it can tell when I type something like “Irritan chemical” it is spelt wrong, it can reckognise that, it should notify authorities coz it logs your IP the instant you use their site I reckon.
You can’t contact google on the UK site at all, if you can it’s impossible to find, and Youtube I woz racially abused on there and there’s no way to report it because it wasn’t on MY video, so I had to let the man threaten me and my family and there was nothing I could do – Google runs Youtube dunnit?
Google are Perverts
Google are Terrible!
_HT!
At 31 July '08 - 08:39 Tom Chandler wrote:
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At 22 August '09 - 11:08 goooooogle hater wrote:
At 20 March '10 - 16:50 gaagle wrote:
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