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Banned By Google: UK University Outs US MFA Sites
PPC News Source: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com
Published: Mar 15, 2008 - 09:08 am
Story Found By: DavidWallace 1431 Days ago
Category: PPC
Google Webmaster Central and the Google Search Quality team have a new ally in the global fight against Web spam, cloaking, paid links, link farms and other non-sanctioned schemes: the Security Group at the University of Cambridge.

Web sites created by Chicago-based Privila were banned by Google earlier this month after Steven Murdoch of University of Cambridge Computer Labs exposed an alleged cloaking scheme by the content network. Ouch!
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from lorenbaker 1429 Days ago #
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I see this expanding as more and more universities are adding Internet security as part of their ciriculum and Google is the doorway to the Internet.

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from voasi 1427 Days ago #
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haha, moral of the story: Don’t send out spammy link exchanges anymore...really uneffective. :)

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