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So Called “Blackhat” Dupes Google Into Indexing 5 BILLION Pages
Posted by Chris Knudsen on June 20th, 2006
Some dude from some third rate European country duped Google into indexing over 5 BILLION spam pages in their index in only three weeks. The guy then monetized the junk sites with Google Adsense Ads. Brilliant. Check out the story here and here.
The best part of the story was that MSN caught the guy and cut him off after only indexing 62 of his spam pages.Â
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Ha! That’s hilarious. Some day I’m going to stick it to the (Google) man.
Left by Blake Snow on 06/20/2006Brilliant? Scraping information from others’ sites, putting up nonsense, cluttering up search results that should be taken up by valid user content is brilliant? Granted, it must feel really good to outsmart the big G, but who is really getting hurt in the process? Google certainly isn’t.
Left by Janell on 06/21/2006The act of duping Google at that level is certianly brilliant. I didn’t say I like the guy…
I think this is very damaging to Google’s reputation.
Left by ctknud on 06/21/2006
eh, you may be right, though the great majority of google’s users will probably never even hear the story. But what’s really funny is that it made Google admit that they’ve known for weeks that the numbers that get returned for pages indexed is way off. It’s just sad how many people are putting this guy up on a pedestal.
Left by Janell on 06/23/2006