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Offline 8_INCH_FLOPPY

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Has anyone noticed....
« 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*
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Offline alaricljs

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« Reply #1 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.
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Offline TacticalCoder

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« Reply #2 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 : )
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Offline 8_INCH_FLOPPY

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« Reply #3 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.
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black cherry, blue cherry, brown cherry, clear cherry, cherry M84, white alps, black alps, cream alps, Monterey blue alps, Fujitsu Peerless, Gateway2000 rubber dome, Keytronic rubber dome, Model M buckling spring, Model F buckling spring, futaba, black space invader

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Offline 8_INCH_FLOPPY

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« Reply #4 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.
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black cherry, blue cherry, brown cherry, clear cherry, cherry M84, white alps, black alps, cream alps, Monterey blue alps, Fujitsu Peerless, Gateway2000 rubber dome, Keytronic rubber dome, Model M buckling spring, Model F buckling spring, futaba, black space invader

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Offline TexasFlood

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« Reply #5 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.  If you haven't checked it out, I highly re
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Offline TexasFlood

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« Reply #6 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.  If you haven't checked it out, I highly recommend it.
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Offline Lanx

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« Reply #7 on: Tue, 09 August 2011, 07:21:31 »
link farm, like recipricol links from one another? Googles recent panda update has dented articles.
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Offline TexasFlood

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« Reply #8 on: Tue, 09 August 2011, 15:57:40 »
Have we lost 8_INCH_FLOPPY? Did his computer blow up? :target:
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Offline 8_INCH_FLOPPY

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« Reply #9 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?
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Notable Switches I have tried:
black cherry, blue cherry, brown cherry, clear cherry, cherry M84, white alps, black alps, cream alps, Monterey blue alps, Fujitsu Peerless, Gateway2000 rubber dome, Keytronic rubber dome, Model M buckling spring, Model F buckling spring, futaba, black space invader

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Offline TexasFlood

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« Reply #10 on: Wed, 10 August 2011, 07:46:42 »
Glad you got it fixed.
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