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May 16, 2005
Dictionary Spam, Meet Number Spam
Dictionary spam is when someone creates a web page that seeming has every word in the dictionary, in hopes of capturing someone who might be searching for anything. Now here's some number spam. Google Search by Number Spam from Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable describes how he searched for a package number on Google. Yep, he got the Google shortcut that leads to the UPS site. However, he also got a page promising adult content that came up because it lists a ton of various number combination. Note to package tracking companies: if tracking numbers have no spaces, it will make it hard for this type of thing to work.
Posted by Danny Sullivan on May 16, 2005 9:10 AM
