Google's New Trap for Spammers?

It didn't take long. Google Base has already been taken over by spammers. Surely Google knew this was going to happen and have some plan for cleaning this up?

There is a very interesting post over at Got Ads? about how Google could easily clean up the spam in their general index just by checking who has posted more than fifty entries in Google Base so far;

Google should basically take the logins of everyone who's uploaded more than 50 items, do a big WHOIS grep through their registry database and penalize every one of the websites of the uploaders in the main search index.

In other words, the only people using base so far are affiliate and porn spammers. Google could use that knowledge to increase the quality of its index spam filtering.

If you haven't seen Got Ads? before, I'd highly recommend it. The quality of insight and writing about Google is superb.

Google has been doing a massive and effective clean-up of spam within their Blogger offering. They've probably got similar plans for Google Base. But in the meantime it just may serve as the honeypot they need to find the Internet's biggest spammers.


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The above fine art print is "Honey Bees" by Martha Burke Anderson