Jan 2, 2007 at 9:45am ET by Barry Schwartz
Nathan Weinberg spotted Google Q&A spam yesterday for a search on how tall is paris. The results led to an adult site (I saw it myself yesterday), but have now been plugged.
This is not the first time Google had issues with spam in the Google Q&A feature. First report was September 2006, which was fixed soon after also.
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I remember the earlier days of search (back when infospace was still around) and it was common to end up at a spammy adult site on lower competition search terms. I’m so glad algorithms have improved.