I'm yet another gadget author looking forwad to Google reaction on this one. It's especially surprising to see this happen considering that all directory gadgets are seemingly manually accepted by Google staff. How hard is it to check if gadget of exactly the same name exists in directory, submitted by another author?
By the way, you guys should consider filing Adsense abuse report here: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=18386&topic=149 or more precisely, here: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9894 Regards, Chris > There are even more domains linked to this thief, bflol.com is another > one: > > http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=bflol.com > > As long as he is not banned from Google Adsense he don't have a reason > to stop. > > On Apr 19, 3:39 pm, igooglefan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I'm wondering how easy is for spammers to came first on search results > > just by adding related keywords there where it should be the > > developers name: > > >http://www.google.com/ig/directory?type=authors&url=frau.fatiha%40gma... > > >http://www.google.de/ig/directory?type=authors&url=midicoiff%40gmail.com > > > The same spammer makes good money with this formula: Google Adsense + > > Duplicating Gadgets from other developers: > > >http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=http://google-adsence.comhttp://... > > Now, since he don't change the author's name, this also something like > > identity theft. > > > Long live the creativity, plagiarism and double content x3! > > > Regards, > > A disappointed iGoogle fan > > :-( --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
