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Superspammer getting billions of pages in Google

A spammer from Romania has found a loophole in Google and is getting billions of subdomains into Google in just 3 weeks – and ranks them!

Here is a site query of one of the domains.

The stupid thing is that he also ranks: example 1, example 2.

“TheHoff” is writing how this was done on his blog here.

Adam Lasnik from Google writes on digg:

Hey there,

I’m on the Search Quality Team at Google. We’re aware of the situation that’s been discussed here.

In particular, I wanted to note a couple of things:
1) Our engineers recently noticed that our site: queries (number of results listed for a search) were showing bizarre results. This has turned out to be tied to a bad data push, and we’re fixing this right now.
2) I am *NOT* on the AdSense team, but I’d hope common sense would suggest to fellow Digg’ers that a click on an AdSense ad does not necessarily result in a charge to an advertiser and a credit to a publisher.

This is now being handled by a hand job but I really wonder how stable BigDaddy is? A huge amount of sites has gotten their internal pages deindexed and these kind of sites …

More links:

UPDATE: Google has now deleted his sites. I hope they correct the algo as well.

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14 responses »Leave a comment
  1. agaton
    said on June 19, 2006 at 12:32 am

    I be confused. Bigdaddy give pages high pagerank even but they not deserve it. And now this…

    Bigdaddy was not the best update Google ever have done…

  2. Halfdeck
    said on June 19, 2006 at 9:49 am

    I should have kept my subdomains; it looks like they’re still working. I’m not surprised that they rank though. If you can get enough pages indexed, they will naturally rank. You can’t underestimate internal link juice.

    The problem I find annoying is these spammers can rinse and repeat this tactic on hundreds of domains with no effort. Is Google going to do a handjob on every single one of those, or are they going to wisen up and either stop regarding subdomains as separate entities or else do a whois on the spammer’s domain?

  3. Inetzeal
    said on June 20, 2006 at 10:01 am

    Jim,
    It seems that google removed all sites from its index. Do you have any idea what technique they used?

  4. Jim Westergren
    said on June 20, 2006 at 1:20 pm

    Jim,
    It seems that google removed all sites from its index. Do you have any idea what technique they used?

    Google? Manual deletion. As for the spammer, see the here

  5. Alfredo
    said on June 20, 2006 at 5:11 pm

    There is always a loophole somewhere. Lucky Romanian, too bad be was too excited to promote billions of pages :-D

  6. SEO Power
    said on June 28, 2006 at 8:16 am

    You may like to check these (on first page of Google):

    site:phpbbstar.com
    site:rmcinfo.fr
    site:blox.pl
    site:psychologies.com
    site:freett.com
    site:ilcannocchiale.it
    site:bravenet.com
    site:noonhost.com
    site:snipsnap.org
    site:noads.biz
    site:oldi.ru
    site:bee.pl
    site:eurekster.com
    site:30mb.com
    site:karelia.ru
    site:4.pl
    site:ltsp.org

    and so many more ALL USED FOR UNLAWFUL – ILLEGAL – SPAM Purpose only and coming on top positions on Google.

    Google must think about ending SUB-DOMAIN game!!

  7. dr phil
    said on July 1, 2006 at 2:56 am

    I cannot belive the stupidity to out such a thing. I guess someone (who is a semi BH himself) couldn´t resist the linkbait.
    People in SEO have been following this dude since 2004, to learn a few tricks. Then someone blew it. Excellent…

  8. NSFW Provider
    said on August 6, 2006 at 2:17 pm

    Big Daddy is a mess, especially for adult, the more a page is spammy and has no content, the better it seems to rank. I have under construction pages (temp page with just a link to a finished page) ranking higher than content rich pages, although before Big Daddy they were ranked 1-5 in google

  9. dr phil
    said on August 6, 2006 at 3:57 pm

    Many have observed the same tendencies. The WH parts of their empires has suffered more than the BH parts. I guess I can echo that to an extent.

  10. Khagendra Pun
    said on September 9, 2006 at 2:17 pm

    the best thing i ever found is here..

  11. WebMaster Tools
    said on October 15, 2006 at 4:27 pm

    Nice information. Hopefully this will wake Google up to keep updating their information and not waiting for someone to exploit it before they change their algo.

  12. wmwebtr ödüllü seo yarışması
    said on December 29, 2007 at 6:08 pm

    Google must think about ending SUB-DOMAIN game!
    thanks you wmwebtr ödüllü seo yarışması

  13. hekimboard
    said on July 4, 2008 at 7:09 pm

    the best thing i ever found is here..

  14. stuat
    said on November 22, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    You may go with directory submission, article submission and other seo services for better result.

    regards,
    stuat

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