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 […]

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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:

Kill it!


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Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land and MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

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