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Title: Has anyone noticed....
Post by: 8_INCH_FLOPPY on Mon, 25 July 2011, 20:23:10

Has anyone noticed....
That link-farms have recently been getting really good at getting on top of search lists? Most of the searchces I've made today have resulted in the first top 3 matches being spam sites and link-farms. There's so much spam using google right now, I'm looking for a different search engine. *Panic* *Panic*

Title: Has anyone noticed....
Post by: alaricljs on Mon, 25 July 2011, 21:27:25

I've used the option in google to eliminate certain sites from the results.  I have entered a whopping 5 sites and it has eliminated that issue entirely for the things I search.

Title: Has anyone noticed....
Post by: TacticalCoder on Tue, 26 July 2011, 10:17:26

Quote from: 8_INCH_FLOPPY;387096

That link-farms have recently been getting really good at getting on top of search lists?

Don't panic: Google is constantly fighting that and they've got a system in place where they can instantly de-list entire site(s) so I'm not too worried: using a few "-" and blacklisting crap I can still find trivially what I'm looking for using Google and anyway I know there are a lot of bright minds working on this problem at Google so I'm not too worried.

Just like I hardly remember what email spam is seen that since I switched my personal email to GMail and my company to "Google Apps for domain/business" I'm hardly getting any spam anymore (despite having publicly published emails), I'm pretty sure one day these link farms will just be 0wned by the engineers at Google.

As for your immediate concern: what alaricljs said : )

Title: Has anyone noticed....
Post by: 8_INCH_FLOPPY on Thu, 28 July 2011, 20:39:32

Thanks for the advice. However, I'm starting to think that the problem is some sort of elaborate virus, since this only seems to be happening on one computer. I've run one scan, and nothing was found, but I have a lineup of a dozen more scanners I use, so we'll see.

Title: Has anyone noticed....
Post by: 8_INCH_FLOPPY on Tue, 09 August 2011, 00:54:13

I removed several spyware programs, and now Google doesn't work at all. All of the links are broken.... WTF... Time to re-install Firefox, apparently.

Title: Has anyone noticed....
Post by: TexasFlood on Tue, 09 August 2011, 01:05:21

Sounds like some of the issues I had with my kids computers, and a friend of mine, google redirection/hijacking, rootkits, etc.  Fixed them all using the malware removal procedures from MajorGeeks (http://forums.majorgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?&f=35).  If you haven't checked it out, I highly re

Title: Has anyone noticed....
Post by: TexasFlood on Tue, 09 August 2011, 01:11:26

Sounds like some of the issues I had with my kids computers, and a friend of mine, google redirection/hijacking, rootkits, etc.  Fixed them all using the malware removal procedures from MajorGeeks (http://forums.majorgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?&f=35).  If you haven't checked it out, I highly recommend it.

Title: Has anyone noticed....
Post by: Lanx on Tue, 09 August 2011, 07:21:31

link farm, like recipricol links from one another? Googles recent panda update has dented articles.

Title: Has anyone noticed....
Post by: TexasFlood on Tue, 09 August 2011, 15:57:40

Have we lost 8_INCH_FLOPPY? Did his computer blow up? :target:

Title: Has anyone noticed....
Post by: 8_INCH_FLOPPY on Tue, 09 August 2011, 22:49:31

Thanks to TexasFlood and MajorGeeks, Google is now working quite well, although, I did finally find another really good alternative search engine. Anyone else ever tried DuckDuckgo?

Title: Has anyone noticed....
Post by: TexasFlood on Wed, 10 August 2011, 07:46:42

Glad you got it fixed.