El Reg Says Google Choking on Spam Sites 234
Grubby Games writes "The Register is reporting that Google is full, and in trouble." From the article: "Recently, we featured a software tool that can create 100 Blogger weblogs in 24 minutes, called Blog Mass Installer. A subterranean industry of sites providing 'private label articles,' or PLAs exists to flesh out 'content' for these freshly minted sites. And as a result, legitimate sites are often caught in the cross fire. But the new algorithms may not be solely to blame. Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt has hinted at another reason for the recent chaos. In Google's earnings conference call last month, Schmidt was frank about the extent of the problem. 'Those machines are full,' he said. 'We have a huge machine crisis.'" James Robertson points out that's a fairly selective bit of quoting.
Everyone - Attention (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks!
Google is Full!? (Score:5, Funny)
Spammer jokes (Score:3, Funny)
So what do you have when you push 50% of all the spammers in the world into a hole and bury them? A good start.
Did you know that if you took all the spammers in the world and lined them up end to end around the equator of the earth that two thirds of them would drown?
Re:Everyone - Attention (Score:5, Funny)
- Andrew
more internet space (Score:5, Funny)
I saw one at bestbuy.com that looks pretty good.
The Register, being less than truthful??? (Score:1, Funny)
I would have never expected to see this day!
My heroes are all burning!
Re:Everyone - Attention (Score:5, Funny)
myspace.com
Problem solved.
Re:Spammer jokes (Score:5, Funny)
Before you get too scared.... (Score:3, Funny)
Google Indexing (Score:5, Funny)
There is an obvious solution (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Everyone - Attention (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Everyone - Attention (Score:5, Funny)
Could someone do a quick backup first? There might be something on the internet that I might need later. I think you can just use Ghost or whatever you IT guys do. Also, please burn it to CD and have it on my desk by COB today.
-Executive Chief Officer SydBarrett
Re:Adsense is to blame (Score:5, Funny)
SQL Solution (Score:3, Funny)
where lower(page_text) like '% beastiality%'
or lower(page_text) like '% lose weight%'
or lower(page_text) like '% refinance%'
or lower(page_text) like '% ebay%'
or lower(page_text) like '% make money fast%'
or lower(page_text) like '% enlarge your%'
or lower(page_text) like '% teens%';
commit;
Re:Are you sure? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Everyone - Attention (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Google is full. Try this... (Score:5, Funny)
44 on yahoo, 229 on google.
Wait, what was I saying?
Re:Everyone - Attention (Score:3, Funny)
Emo sucks.
If you use Myspace you are emo.
If you use Myspace you suck.
Re:How Google crawls a site (Score:1, Funny)
(click)
That's just mean, dude.
Re:Google Indexing (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Everyone - Attention (Score:2, Funny)
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