Yesterday’s outing of the 7 billion page spammer has generated an enormous amount of interest. Enough interest that a Google PR rep posted on Digg that this was all part of a “bad data push” and that the error wasn’t with the index, but with the site: operator:
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.
Give us a little bit of credit, eh? This was not a bad data push and while the site: command may have been overestimating the amount of pages, you must admit he was well indexed and the pages were ranking. He gamed Google better than anyone has in a long, long time. I’d wager it worked better than he expected or ever hoped. If he had limited each subdomain to a few thousand pages, he probably could’ve flown under the radar indefinitely (and there are many people who do).
This cannot be faked:
The Alexa rank for t1ps2see.com looks like a cliff! Since his traffic is not webmaster-related I’d bet the real daily ranking is actually below 1,000. Only sites like About and Wikipedia have the sort of penetration into every subject that he had. And I say had because as I type, the domains are being manually removed from Google’s index.
I’m a bit surprised (like the Guardian tech blog) that the Google engineers must not use their own search engine because it has been impossible to miss these domains in the rankings. I’m very glad that SuperAff saved the following search result for posterity. I present…
“pizza sauce recipe!” by Google
(Amazingly, eiqz2q.org had 67 of the top 100 listings for the phrase.)
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damn, I just wish I would have thought of this, I would certainly have limited the output to under 100k pages per subdomain. another thought is how many people are rushing to get these types of sites online in droves. I would think there will be thousands of mini versions of these sites popping up soon.
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