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02-07-2001, 22:16/10:16PM
Excite is also working on tightening up its spam detection, in particular to watch for mirror pages or those who run multiple web sites in hopes of dominating the top results.
This has been a big problem for Excite over the past year or so. In addition to automatic detection, Excite says it also
depends on customer reports of spam.
"It does help us a lot for people to report when they find spam," said Lynne Mariani Pogue, who oversees search for Excite@Home. She cited one extreme example where someone reviewed the top 750 URLs that appeared for a
particular search, calling out specific examples of spam.
"That's definitely above and beyond the call of duty, but it was helpful to us," Pogue said.
Should you wish to report spam to Excite, note the search term, the URL in question, its position and a succinct explanation of why you think it is spam. Send this using the Excite feedback form, below.
The above is from Danny Sullivan (http://www.searchenginewatch.com). This is great news. All the engines seem to be taking a very hard stance on ALL kinds of spam and tricks that some sites try, to get a better search engine rank on their search terms.
This is VERY good!
If ya can't do it the ethical way, then don't do it at ALL.
This has been a big problem for Excite over the past year or so. In addition to automatic detection, Excite says it also
depends on customer reports of spam.
"It does help us a lot for people to report when they find spam," said Lynne Mariani Pogue, who oversees search for Excite@Home. She cited one extreme example where someone reviewed the top 750 URLs that appeared for a
particular search, calling out specific examples of spam.
"That's definitely above and beyond the call of duty, but it was helpful to us," Pogue said.
Should you wish to report spam to Excite, note the search term, the URL in question, its position and a succinct explanation of why you think it is spam. Send this using the Excite feedback form, below.
The above is from Danny Sullivan (http://www.searchenginewatch.com). This is great news. All the engines seem to be taking a very hard stance on ALL kinds of spam and tricks that some sites try, to get a better search engine rank on their search terms.
This is VERY good!
If ya can't do it the ethical way, then don't do it at ALL.