Comments on: How Billions of Bogus Pages Undermine Search Engines, Advertisers and The Web http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/06/21/browsers_aaejgdfefe_df/ Spam, Security, Privacy, Spyware, Phishing & Viruses from the Front Lines. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:51:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: BJ http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/06/21/browsers_aaejgdfefe_df/#comment-985 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:54:42 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/06/21/browsers_aaejgdfefe_df/#comment-985 Hi Ks.<br> We're working on a couple of PPC-fraud stories.<br> <br> If you can provide detailed specifics, email them along with contact info to emailbattles@nospammail.net.<br> <br> Remember, I said "specifics" not rants. Leave the rants to the professionals. Hi Ks.
We’re working on a couple of PPC-fraud stories.

If you can provide detailed specifics, email them along with contact info to emailbattles@nospammail.net.

Remember, I said “specifics” not rants. Leave the rants to the professionals.

]]> by: Ks http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/06/21/browsers_aaejgdfefe_df/#comment-984 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:12:24 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/06/21/browsers_aaejgdfefe_df/#comment-984 you helped expose one kind of fraud, but what about all those sites that do the same thing with a reg URL - we have a site jetaway hawaii - do a search for that term and you will find 1 in 3 results is a scraper of our google ads.. because of you it seems google took action against your finding but are they going to do anything about these other kinds? any idea? I know they cost us money and visitors as well as ranking on competitive words - thanks for your work on this though .. i see my spam results are much less than they were before it was 1 in 2 with the spammy site ranking higher than the legit one.. (BTW JAH follows all google guidelines and is w3c compliant) you helped expose one kind of fraud, but what about all those sites that do the same thing with a reg URL - we have a site jetaway hawaii - do a search for that term and you will find 1 in 3 results is a scraper of our google ads.. because of you it seems google took action against your finding but are they going to do anything about these other kinds? any idea? I know they cost us money and visitors as well as ranking on competitive words - thanks for your work on this though .. i see my spam results are much less than they were before it was 1 in 2 with the spammy site ranking higher than the legit one.. (BTW JAH follows all google guidelines and is w3c compliant)

]]> by: BJ http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/06/21/browsers_aaejgdfefe_df/#comment-983 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:23:32 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/06/21/browsers_aaejgdfefe_df/#comment-983 As a pre-monetization Google fan, I find GOOG's lightning-speed descent is a painful thing to witness... and don't get me started on the Chinese collaboration.<br> <br> fyi: Jason Kolb's post of 23 May (which he refs in his comment above) is a worthwhile read. As a pre-monetization Google fan, I find GOOG’s lightning-speed descent is a painful thing to witness… and don’t get me started on the Chinese collaboration.

fyi: Jason Kolb’s post of 23 May (which he refs in his comment above) is a worthwhile read.

]]> by: JCV http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/06/21/browsers_aaejgdfefe_df/#comment-982 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:25:32 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/06/21/browsers_aaejgdfefe_df/#comment-982 I run a website using adsense, and I personally feel that there is not enough disclosure on Google's part as to how much clickfraud actually takes place, let alone how much money each click is really worth. Additionally, I run adwords advertising, and the price per click on keywords is just silly. The keyword minimums just go up and up without any idea of what people are paying for the ads. I don't like it but it makes me money, so I can't complain. As an investor I would never buy a share of google's stock. They are not transparent enough for me.<br> <br> -JCV<br> <br> http://www.marketlinks.org I run a website using adsense, and I personally feel that there is not enough disclosure on Google’s part as to how much clickfraud actually takes place, let alone how much money each click is really worth. Additionally, I run adwords advertising, and the price per click on keywords is just silly. The keyword minimums just go up and up without any idea of what people are paying for the ads. I don’t like it but it makes me money, so I can’t complain. As an investor I would never buy a share of google’s stock. They are not transparent enough for me.

-JCV

http://www.marketlinks.org

]]> by: George http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/06/21/browsers_aaejgdfefe_df/#comment-981 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:20:46 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/06/21/browsers_aaejgdfefe_df/#comment-981 Not only do they gladly accept spam sites in their index, but they also allow scraper sites with stolen content. I have several sites that has been scraped of content and Google even display these sites above mine which is rediculous. Some sites has also disappeared from Googles index for no reason, at least nothing I know and understand and they are not kep accountable since they don't even answer anybody emailing them. All you get is acanned email saying "Yeah, yeah... we'll notice it..."<br> george @ http://www.locateprisoner.com Not only do they gladly accept spam sites in their index, but they also allow scraper sites with stolen content. I have several sites that has been scraped of content and Google even display these sites above mine which is rediculous. Some sites has also disappeared from Googles index for no reason, at least nothing I know and understand and they are not kep accountable since they don’t even answer anybody emailing them. All you get is acanned email saying “Yeah, yeah… we’ll notice it…”
george @ http://www.locateprisoner.com

]]> by: Mario http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/06/21/browsers_aaejgdfefe_df/#comment-980 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:47:14 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/06/21/browsers_aaejgdfefe_df/#comment-980 In spite of Google's well-known pontificating implicit in its "Do No Evil" slogan/motto/creed, they sidled up to the Chinese government tyrants to make a buck. After a public outcry and bad press the top googler eventually conceded that maybe that wasn't the right thing to do. And now they rake in their cut from billions of bogus web pages. They either need to change or they need to change their slogan/motto/creed. In spite of Google’s well-known pontificating implicit in its “Do No Evil” slogan/motto/creed, they sidled up to the Chinese government tyrants to make a buck. After a public outcry and bad press the top googler eventually conceded that maybe that wasn’t the right thing to do. And now they rake in their cut from billions of bogus web pages. They either need to change or they need to change their slogan/motto/creed.

]]> by: Jason Kolb http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/06/21/browsers_aaejgdfefe_df/#comment-979 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:05:53 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/06/21/browsers_aaejgdfefe_df/#comment-979 I agree, and I actually think that this is a function of Google's popularity. I actually posted on this a few weeks ago at http://jasonkolb.typepad.com/weblog/2006/05/google_is_dying.html I agree, and I actually think that this is a function of Google’s popularity. I actually posted on this a few weeks ago at http://jasonkolb.typepad.com/weblog/2006/05/google_is_dying.html

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