The Google Round Up: Google Claims Victory Over Spam, and Combats Mal-Ware Sites
2007 at 10:04am | by Dave
At least Google is doing more than laying the smack-down on “innocent” bloggers. Slashdot reports that they’ve recently removed over 40,000 malware sites that had gamed the system to achieve top results for thousands of random terms. I wonder how much money these black-hatters made before Google found out about the problem. Fortunately for Google, there are companies like Sunbelt Software, who pick up the slack when Google drops the ball.
In other Google news, Wired has posted a recent article about the state of spam on the net today. Brad Taylor, Google’s head spam fighter, says spam to gmail accounts is flat and may even be declining for the first time ever. He attributes this decline to Google’s advanced spam filters.
Not surprisingly, Google will not release any statistical data backing this up… so take the information with a grain of salt. It’d be nice if spam was not growing anymore, or even decreasing… but it just sounds too good to be true, and you know what they say…
Good Profits.
