vali petcu blog » spam http://www.valipetcu.com notes of a traveler of both time and space Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:52:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Laughable spam http://www.valipetcu.com/2011/laughable-spam.html http://www.valipetcu.com/2011/laughable-spam.html#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:13:58 +0000 vali petcu http://www.valipetcu.com/2011/laughable-spam.html

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Sure, i’ll click your link, especially noticing the email is not sent by my registrar.

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]]> http://www.valipetcu.com/2011/blekkos-first-problem.html/feed/ 0 The web should be smaller http://www.valipetcu.com/2011/the-web-should-be-smaller.html http://www.valipetcu.com/2011/the-web-should-be-smaller.html#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:45:23 +0000 vali petcu http://www.valipetcu.com/2011/02/the-web-should-be-smaller.html Imagine all the duplicate videos from youtube removed. All the sites that are just reblogging the information from TechCrunch and AllThingsD without adding any value or opinion. All the duplicate images from blogger.com removed.

The web is getting bigger, but not getting any better.

]]> http://www.valipetcu.com/2011/the-web-should-be-smaller.html/feed/ 0 very little original content… http://www.valipetcu.com/2011/very-little-original-content.html http://www.valipetcu.com/2011/very-little-original-content.html#comments Sat, 29 Jan 2011 08:32:56 +0000 vali petcu http://www.valipetcu.com/2011/01/very-little-original-content.html A quote from a discussion about the new Google search changes, from a guy who operates an aggregator:

There is very little "truly original" content out there, virtually every single blog rehashes the content of others. Is Techmeme of no value? Is Digg of no value? Is Topix of no value?

Also, we do actually produce some original content, we have a small staff of writers who create "featured posts" every day…

See the problem? It’s not that sites like his are polluting the internet with mashed up articles from around the web, it’s that the true original content is very little. So I am asking the question he forgot to ask: why is that? Because of sites like his, of course!

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Satisfaction, oooo!

Poison said it, not me. IT’s what came to mind reading this post by Matt Cutts. The fun part is here:

One misconception that we’ve seen in the last few weeks is the idea that Google doesn’t take as strong action on spammy content in our index if those sites are serving Google ads. To be crystal clear:

  • Google absolutely takes action on sites that violate our quality guidelines regardless of whether they have ads powered by Google;

Yes. And pigs fly!!!

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