Tuesday, April 12, 2005
In the beginning there was emmss.com
Now as far as Google shows, there isn't!
A few days ago I noticed that the inspiration (who we called Mr. Chongqing) for our whole chongqing plan's main domains (emmss.com and emmss.net) appear to have been banned by Google. Search Google by link or site and they aren't listed. Looking up their PageRank gives 0. Sadly the .org version is still around, but that one was not his perfered domain for spam.
Then Manni thought to try inurl:emmss for the term emmss itself. Both return chongqed.org results.
He even seemed to have improved his spamming ways a few months ago. He was still spamming wikis, but he seemed to be at least limiting it to SandBox pages (last I checked) so it was only annoying and unwanted rather than destructive. Maybe he expanded into some other form of spam that got him banned, I don't know. But I am happy Google took notice.
WebSpam doesn't pay!
A few days ago I noticed that the inspiration (who we called Mr. Chongqing) for our whole chongqing plan's main domains (emmss.com and emmss.net) appear to have been banned by Google. Search Google by link or site and they aren't listed. Looking up their PageRank gives 0. Sadly the .org version is still around, but that one was not his perfered domain for spam.
Then Manni thought to try inurl:emmss for the term emmss itself. Both return chongqed.org results.
He even seemed to have improved his spamming ways a few months ago. He was still spamming wikis, but he seemed to be at least limiting it to SandBox pages (last I checked) so it was only annoying and unwanted rather than destructive. Maybe he expanded into some other form of spam that got him banned, I don't know. But I am happy Google took notice.
WebSpam doesn't pay!
