Yahoo Outing Sites That Send Spam Emails in Search Results

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Adi 02 Oct 2008 at 11:29 am

I’m all for naming and shaming sites but I hope they’re confident in their sources. It would get very messy if sites were falsely accused of spam.

Craig Killick 02 Oct 2008 at 11:35 am

I had this a few months ago and had a similar message back. It also went on to say that this might be due to my website.

I ended up registering to McAfee SiteAdvisor and about two months later it was removed.

Barry Schwartz 02 Oct 2008 at 12:09 pm

Yahoo has been doing this since May time…

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/017063.html

Charles 02 Oct 2008 at 12:17 pm

This is a great new feature. The more the search engines actively do to call out the bad players, the better.

Now if Google just had one that said “This site ranks here because they are scamming us with Digital Point Network” under some of the search results, that would be great.

Patrick Altoft 02 Oct 2008 at 12:56 pm
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Barry – I had seen malware reports before but never reports that the site had been responsible for spam emails.

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Vygantas 02 Oct 2008 at 3:11 pm

If only their search results wont suck…

Vinay 02 Oct 2008 at 3:32 pm

I’ve noticed this a while back.. July-August! But if Yahoo! knew they were spamming .. why not penalize (lol) ?

Robert 03 Oct 2008 at 2:17 pm

While I’m all for the tar and feathering of companies that spam, are they sure of their sources? I’ve had folk complain about spam after they’d signed up. Anyhow… more incentive to keep checking your listings (ie. running searches in) Yahoo! ?

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