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Google: Stop Caching that Czech!
March 03, 2006
Last week I wrote about a Czech site cloaking its way to an above-the-fold spot for a query to which I feel quite attached. I reported it and a few days later, it was gone. That's where the post ended.
But a day or two after that, it was back. Sort of. Same domain, but a different folder. A similar stuffed page was visible if you had JavaScript shut off, and the same ad-loaded scraper site was where you ended up if JS was turned on.
I was about to report it again, but instead, I decided to see what would happen if I didn't. And just like before, two days later, it was gone again. This time, without my reporting it.
So this doesn't necessarily prove anything, but it leaves me with some possible theories. Maybe the algo caught it both times, and its disappearance after my initial spam report was merely a coincidence. (I even suspected as much when I wrote the first post.) Or, maybe someone else reported it this time, and Google plucked it manually.
I'm leaning toward the algo catching it both times. It's probably hubristic, given the amount of spam reports Google must receive, to think they'd act on my recommendation so quickly. But since Google now longer denies hand-involvement in site-pulling, anything's possible.
Note: I'm fully aware that an update to a spam report post isn't particularly compelling. But I had a post title with a double pun, and I wasn't about to give that up. I can't live on sonnets alone.
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posted by Erik Dafforn at March 3, 2006 07:37 PM
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