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Posted By: DavidWallace 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Google AdSense
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 130 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.

from voasi 129 days ago # - show/hide this comment
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haha, moral of the story: Don't send out spammy link exchanges anymore...really uneffective. :)


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