Thanks a lot Takashi, you made my (our) day. Seems that some spammers left directory.
After the 2 bad devs are not viewable, i found the next keyword spammer, with only a "Create account" page inside the Gadget. If u have time, please have a look at: http://www.google.de/ig/directory?type=authors&itemstype=gadgets&url=13blogov%40gmail.com&start=0 "Muzikant" And again, thanks for your attention to the probs of the developers and the care of loved iGoogle directory! regards Sebastian On Aug 30, 1:48 pm, Takashi Matsuo ♟ <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > First, thank you for the e-mail. We're aware of those spammy apps and > actively working on it. > Additionally, we're looking into the category issue you mentioned. > > I'll let you know once the investigation is done. > > Again, thank you for reporting it. > > -- Takashi > > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 6:01 AM, The Atlantic Monthly > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I posted this as a reply to another post in one of the user forums, > > but thought it might be more appropriate here (slightly modified from > > the original). > > > It's not an exaggeration to say that more than half of the first 200 > > gadgets in the search for "the atlantic" are by "InsaneStunts" or > > "AppHaven," and they all follow more or less the same formula: an > > obscure youtube video no one would want to watch, plenty of google > > adsense ads, and occasionally a healthy string of > > &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; in the content to remind you > > that no human was involved in creating or reviewing the gadgets > > submitted to iGoogle. The only response I've seen from google about > > gadget spam (when there is any at all) is a link to the iGoogle > > policy / reporting page, but that seems to ignore the scope of the > > problem, as if it was just one author or one gadget breaking the rules > > (at the very least, all of the AppHaven and InsaneStunts gadgets > > appear to be in violation of the advertising guidelines). Even so, the > > issue isn't so much that these gadgets exist, but they have manage to > > game the rankings in the directory. > > > Perhaps this is unrelated, but in other respects it seems like > > maintenance of the directory has fallen to the wayside. As far as I > > can tell, there has been nothing placed into a category in the > > directory since I started checking, back in June. I spent a fair bit > > of time on our iGoogle gadget, and though we've slowly gained an > > install-base, it is quite honestly hard to find us. The developers > > working at iGoogle add neat things on a regular basis (for instance, > > the new stats in the iGoogle dashboard) but without a modicum of > > content moderation to complement that work, I can't think of a > > compelling reason to develop for the iGoogle platform. If the next > > killer feature for iGoogle was spam submission detection, I might > > change my mind. > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. > > -- > Takashi Matsuo | Developer Advocate | [email protected] | 03-6384-9224 -- 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.
