Stephan Spencer's Scatterings

The Scattered Wisdom of a scientist turned web marketing virtuoso

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BMW spams Google and gets slapped for it

Google has raised its mighty hand against automotive giant BMW AG by banning the bmw.de site from Google's index. You can verify that this is indeed the case by conducting a site:bmw.de query. BMW was employing doorway pages and sneaky redirects, two no-… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 02/06/2006 | Permalink

Comments (0)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines google, search_engines, search_engine_spam, seo            

Mechanical Turk – not exactly new

It is interesting that Amazon.com has launched a new program called the Mechanical Turk where people in the world can earn small amounts of money doing tasks that are not suited to computers/artificial intelligence. Amazon bills it as "artificial artific… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 12/29/2005 | Permalink

Comments (2)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines, Blogging amazon.com, blog_spam, captchas, matt cutt, mechanical turk, search_engine_spam, spam, spammers