On 01/20/2018 09:31 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I googles "devuan ascii" today and in the top few finds there were three > spam sites -- sites which either jut advertised expensive junk, or else > pretended to be my ISP doing a survey and as a reward offering > expensive junk such as (probably fake) testosterone supplements. > > At this point the power went out, so I didn't get to see if there were > more. > > The brief excerpts Google presented before I clicked on links were > legitimate-looking quotes from Devuan sites, listing things like the > platforms devuan runs on and so forth. > > Somehow the spammers have manages to out-SEO the legitimate Devuan > sites. It's not making it easy for newcomers to find us. > > Ugly.
The problem is going to be dreadfully hard to reproduce and harder to report even if it can be reproduced. The reason for the difficulty in reproducibility is that the main search engines customize the search results for each perceived user individually based on a lot of factors including past searches. You yourself will get vastly different results from Google if you tell it to pretend to ignore your search history, as well as different results if you use a clean machine with a fresh account coming from another IP number. The latter is the closest you might get to seeing the generic search results for people in your country. There are some hoops Google wants site maintainers to hop through: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183668?hl=en As far as delisting spam goes, I have no clue to how to report it or if they even care as long as ads are served. It's been a very, very long time since there was even an e-mail address for feedback there. /Lars _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
