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Jan. 10, 2007 at 8:42am Eastern by Danny Sullivan
Google Blog Search's People Search Spam Problem
Last month, I wrote Public Spam/Splog Report over on my personal blog, begging Google to stop the "people search" spam that's been clogging my Google Blog Search feeds with junk off Google's own Blogger service. Today, I noticed Steve Rubel writing recently on the same issue.
Steve gives you the screenshots of how the junk shows up on Google Blog Search. My post goes into depth on the redirection and scraping that's going on. End of story, the junk needs to step. C'mon, Google -- fix it.
FYI, here's today's latest junk out of my newsreader from just today:
- United States People Search Engine
- Google People Search In Nc
- Google Canada People Search
- Germany People Search Engine
- Map Google People Search Engine
- People Search Hotmail Uk
- People Search Engines Germany
- Search Engine For People 's Contact Via Email
- Search Yahoo Com/search P Old People Porn
- Google Usa People Search 20
- Katrina Google People Search
- Yahoo People Search 20
- People Search Engines Germany
- Google's Blogger Hit By Huge Influx of Redirect Spam
Kill it!
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I run legitimate people search site - SearchBug ( http://www.searchbug.com/ ). We have been online for more then 10 years.
I subscribe for Google alerts for "searchbug" keyword and I am getting daily messages with about 10 to 15 new "people search" spam blogs that use our brand name (registred US trademark) in the title or body of the blogs.
Later those blogs start regirecting users to this webiste: people-search.com. Here are some examples:
civazajag.blogspot.com/index.html
bafijixotuh.blogspot.com/index.html
This should stop!
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My site, (http://www.peoplesearchnews.com) discovered this same issue weeks ago.
We wrote an article which lists several resources for reporting fake blogs. You can read that article here: http://www.peoplesearchnews.com/technology/what-you-can-do-to-stop-fake-blogs/
Also, a group of us has gotten together and reported all of these blogs numerous times. So far, I can see no results from our efforts.
Additionally, the only legitimate update I received was the press release from Searchbug.com, last week.
Lastly, has anyone considered these blogs will affect our domains? I have noticed that most of the links within these blogs are no-follows except for those pointing to "competitors" domains.
I hope this problem is fixed soon.
I agree - it's also making my Google Alerts (one of which is set to my name/site) almost totally useless.
Fix it, guys. It's ruining your other services.
Ian