Can Google Detect all Webspam?
November 28th, 2007 | RSS Feed
Black hats have always been making waves with all their cloaking and other ways to trick webspiders, but can Google really detect such maneuvers by black hats. As Matt Cutts notes the claims about a Danish company. "I've been following a case in Denmark where a cloaking company has been making a couple interesting claims. First, they claim that if a "brand-name" company cloaks, Google won't remove the brand-name domain. That's simply not true; if we believe that a company is abusing Google's index by cloaking, we certainly do reserve the right to remove that company's domains from our index. Next, the cloaking company claims that their method of cloaking is undetectable."
But it might not all be undetectable as: "if someone is trying to manipulate Google by deceptive cloaking, it means that a webserver is returning different content to Googlebot than to users. That's a condition that can be checked for by algorithms or manually, and such cloaking is certainly not 'undetectable.'"
So it might not be all that easy to trick the webspiders after all.
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October 7th, 2008 at 10:43
I know this is input a year later, and your article is on cloaking and not email spam – but regarding Google detecting spam (because I've just been dying to laugh about this with someone!): When I created a couple new gmail addresses, the "confirming email" from gmail was sent to my spam box in both a Google email address and Yahoo email address. (Basically, Google marked themselves as spam, and Yahoo marked Google as spam.) I've read about Google banning themselves before. Point is…still has a way to go!