Jim Westergren
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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.

18 Jun 2006
About the Author Jim Westergren Jim Westergren is a Swedish web entrepreneur. He is happily married and has three lovely children. Some of his interests are web development, SEO and writing. He is the Founder of DomainStats and N.nu. Read his .

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