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	<title>Comments on: Google Blog Search&#8217;s People Search Spam Problem</title>
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		<title>By: birdswitharms</title>
		<link>http://searchengineland.com/google-blog-searchs-people-search-spam-problem-10231/comment-page-1#comment-542</link>
		<dc:creator>birdswitharms</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>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: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.peoplesearchnews.com/technology/what-you-can-do-to-stop-fake-blogs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.peoplesearchnews.com/technology/what-you-can-do-to-stop-fake-blogs/&lt;/a&gt;

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 &quot;competitors&quot; domains.

I hope this problem is fixed soon.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My site, (<a href="http://www.peoplesearchnews.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.peoplesearchnews.com</a>) discovered this same issue weeks ago.</p>
<p>We wrote an article which lists several resources for reporting fake blogs. You can read that article here: <a href="http://www.peoplesearchnews.com/technology/what-you-can-do-to-stop-fake-blogs/" rel="nofollow">http://www.peoplesearchnews.com/technology/what-you-can-do-to-stop-fake-blogs/</a></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Additionally, the only legitimate update I received was the press release from Searchbug.com, last week.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;competitors&#8221; domains.</p>
<p>I hope this problem is fixed soon.</p>
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		<title>By: searchbug</title>
		<link>http://searchengineland.com/google-blog-searchs-people-search-spam-problem-10231/comment-page-1#comment-541</link>
		<dc:creator>searchbug</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I run legitimate people search site - SearchBug ( &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.searchbug.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.searchbug.com/&lt;/a&gt; ). We have been online for more then 10 years.

I subscribe for Google alerts for &quot;searchbug&quot; keyword and I am getting daily messages with about 10 to 15 new &quot;people search&quot; 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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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I run legitimate people search site &#8211; SearchBug ( <a href="http://www.searchbug.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.searchbug.com/</a> ). We have been online for more then 10 years.</p>
<p>I subscribe for Google alerts for &#8220;searchbug&#8221; keyword and I am getting daily messages with about 10 to 15 new &#8220;people search&#8221; spam blogs that use our brand name (registred US trademark) in the title or body of the blogs.</p>
<p>Later those blogs start regirecting users to this webiste: people-search.com. Here are some examples:<br />
civazajag.blogspot.com/index.html<br />
bafijixotuh.blogspot.com/index.html</p>
<p>This should stop!</p>
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		<title>By: Ian McAnerin</title>
		<link>http://searchengineland.com/google-blog-searchs-people-search-spam-problem-10231/comment-page-1#comment-540</link>
		<dc:creator>Ian McAnerin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree - it&#039;s also making my Google Alerts (one of which is set to my name/site) almost totally useless.

Fix it, guys. It&#039;s ruining your other services.

Ian
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree &#8211; it&#8217;s also making my Google Alerts (one of which is set to my name/site) almost totally useless.</p>
<p>Fix it, guys. It&#8217;s ruining your other services.</p>
<p>Ian</p>
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