Monday, November 08, 2010 at 3:08 PM
Webmaster Level: AllAt Google, we continually strive to improve our algorithms to keep search results relevant and clean. You have been supporting us on this mission by sending spam reports for websites that violate our Webmaster Guidelines, using the spam report form in Google Webmaster Tools. While you might not see changes right away, we take your reports seriously and use them to fine-tune our algorithms -- the feedback is much appreciated and helps us to protect the integrity of our search results. We also take manual action on many of these spam reports. A recent blog post covers more information on how to identify webspam.
For those of you who regularly report spam, or would like to do so, we’ve now published a Chrome extension for reporting spam that makes the process more convenient and simple. The extension adds “Report spam” links to search results and your Web History, taking you directly to the spam report form and autocompleting some form fields for you. With this extension, Google’s spam report form is always just one click away.
- a browser button to report the currently viewed page
- an option to retrieve recent Google searches from your Chrome history
- an option to retrieve recently visited URLs from your Chrome history
The extension is available in 16 languages. If your Chrome browser is set to a language supported by the extension, it will automatically use the localized version, otherwise defaulting to English.
Note: We care about your privacy. The Google Webspam Report Chrome extension allows you to access your personal Chrome history for the purpose of reporting spam, but does not send data retrieved from it to our servers. The source code of the extension has been published under an open source license.
12 comments:
Thanks for the nice informations to us..
Many Thanks
So what is to stop a competing site from flagging your site as spam? This doesn't seem right to me. Am I missing something here?
I'm with Stever400.
What a pain to chase down malicious spam reports.
That's basically what this is for...to report your competitors.
I think that the Google spam engineers are smart enough to find out if a site is spam or not; I mean let's give Google some credit, they did build the most relevant search engine ever.
how about scam sites?
This is cool, wish it was a part of Google itself though.
BTW, I don't think it works for News...
Dec. 7. Nothing of historical significance warranting any note on the Google main page, huh? Nothing happened on Dec. 7 worthy of remembering? When China attacks Google again, you might want to consider those who have sacrificed for your rights. Dec. 7. For some reason, that sounds like it is significant.
I think it doesn't work....I've reported two weeks ago a big case of webspam but nothing happened. Please check the report on my account
searching on google uk for solar panels, I came across a site that advertises itself as a registered installer. yet the privacy page says it sells my name to 3 other solar pv installers who will then contact me surely this is misrepresentation?
carrying on with my search I tried different combinations and found over 30 sites dominating all the top rankings for whichever combination of search phrase i used - these sites all happen to be owned by the same guys or by companies that are connected to each other. effectively they have sewn up the top rankings is this monopolization approved by google?
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