Hi Matt, Yes, this seems to be something which has been occurring on one of our repositories. I have observed three separate flags within Google Search Console in as many weeks. This never used to be a problem in the past so I can only assume Google has changed its security metrics.
> If you've also dealt with something like this, how did you end up handling it? But in terms of handling it, I didn't! 😉 I have simply provided feedback to the Search Console team via the 'reconsideration request' feature. Each time Google has lifted the flag (presumably following investigation by a real human...). So, rather than handling it locally, I'm hoping that Google simply modifies their security/spam checking algorithms because a lot of services must be getting flagged and I don't think it is reasonable for Google to expect the changes they are seeking. Cheers George -- George Macgregor Scholarly Publications & Research Data | IS Information Management University of Strathclyde Tel: 0141 548 3496 | Web: https://purl.org/g3om4c | Twitter: @g3om4c https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8482-3973 -- -- The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC015263 -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Krc, Matthew Sent: 11 December 2019 16:07 To: [email protected] Subject: [CODE4LIB] "Content Injection" warnings from Google NONCONFIDENTIAL // EXTERNAL Hi, I was wondering if any other institutions that serve up PDFs in their digital libraries ever have had to deal with Content Injection errors from Google Search Console. This seems to be the case with a number of our documents - when Google indexes the text layer of our PDFs they seem to be interpreting imperfect OCR as spam content and flagging it as a potentially hacked page (we've done thorough investigations and they're not). If you've also dealt with something like this, how did you end up handling it? Thanks, Matt Matthew Krc Senior Digital Projects Librarian Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (314) 444-0836
