Sinoed
Joined: Dec 11, 2000
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Posted: 2003-Dec-09 06:48
Well this is one way to abuse the proverbial system. Have all of your pages generated and served so that it appears they are from different URL's, but of course with the exact same content (cloaked so Google doesn't have a clue). Check out these listings all the way to page 23. What a joke, I reported this to get this crap out of the index.
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excell
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Joined: Mar 19, 2001
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Posted: 2003-Dec-09 07:03
That term and a great many others no doubt.. blech 
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SmartROI
Joined: Nov 18, 2003
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Posted: 2003-Dec-09 07:50
I don't see any cloaking going on here. Just real stupid sites. The cached and the live sites are the same.
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rocket_rob
Joined: Eons Ago
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Posted: 2003-Dec-09 12:33
Google likes crap so give 'em crap. How their great algo misses dung like this is beyond me. Replace Niagara with one of the other cities. For kicks I looked a bay city michigan and the results are the same garbage.
Google must have been overtaken by idiots, because only an idiot would find these SERPs useful.
Spammers 1,000,000 Relevant Sites 0. Looks like a blow out.
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dedmond29
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Posted: 2003-Dec-09 13:45
Is that a Bug in the system? I've seen something that might be similiar to this from someone else - allthough I believe that they are not deliberately trying to mislead site visitors.
The sites in reference are real estate sites from multiple cities which all have near identical content on the first page except the city, state and URL specific references. So if you search certain real estate search terms in Google, the results show all of these real estate sites for all of the different cities - very irrelevant results.
Anyone have any ideas why this is happening?
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excell
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Joined: Mar 19, 2001
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Posted: 2003-Dec-09 15:16
Yes, it is a poor algorithm that let's this in and there are many many instances of this genre in google.. hogging / clogging the serps...What the relevancy of multiple listings of duplicate information is - is beyond me. I can only think that google is trying and failing.
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riels
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Posted: 2003-Dec-09 17:48
I tend to believe that things will swing back into balance. Just keep doing logical things that make for good pages.
In the meantime, not all searches are giving irrelevant results - see what the phrase "miserable failure" in google brings up:
I must admit they got this one right - LOL
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SmartROI
Joined: Nov 18, 2003
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Posted: 2003-Dec-09 18:03
No Riels... that's just another example of the poor results from Google being manipulated by bloggers with nothing else better to do with their time.
It's just as bad as the Niagara spammer, except these people are abusing the system in order to try to make a childish political statement which has absolutely no merit whatsoever.
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jpalbicke
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Posted: 2003-Dec-09 19:11
Very similiar domination is occurring for keywords like "tee times online"... One domain dominating several pages in the results with a link for every state... Ridiculous...
JP
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seojunior
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Posted: 2003-Dec-09 19:17
Google is for sure hacked :P How can they face the world to tell this?
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ruperto
Joined: Nov 18, 2003
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Posted: 2003-Dec-09 19:25
Simply amazing!
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dedmond29
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Posted: 2003-Dec-10 16:54
What's strange in the case I had mentioned is that I am searching area-specific terminology - like "San Francisco Real Estate For Sale" (Just an example).
Also - I am noticing that it only happens in the less competitive markets - when I run the terms in more competitive markets (Boston, San Diego, NY etc) they are filtered out. Very interesting.
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jbgilbert
Joined: Sep 16, 2002
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Posted: 2003-Dec-10 19:03
JP said:
The same site is dominating multiple pages of Google for "tee times online"...
WELL GUESS WHAT... this same multi-subdomain site dominates MULTIPLE PAGES of Google results for MANY phrases. "tee times online", "philadelphia real estate agents" AND MANY, MANY, MANY MORE terms.
I mean search for any of these terms and Google returns 20+ pages of results from the same site?
What the heck is Google doing? All affiliate stuff aside, this is the biggest mess I have ever seen.
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Sinoed
Joined: Dec 11, 2000
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Posted: 2003-Dec-11 05:56
I agree.. its pretty sad when stuff like this happens. I actually got better results finding coupons for dinner at Niagara then checking the search engines. I could see two or three maybe even five pages from one site but 23 pages is terrible. I don't know what the heck they're doing but there is definitely a problem. I can imagine there are probably a LOT of examples of this. I noticed the same thing, specific regional terms are being spammed but I can't think of any examples of this for highly competitive terms.. maybe because they've already been reported a few thousand times?
Just an add, I know the cached and live sites are the same but there is definitely something fishy going on. I can't even begin to imagine how Google's filters could possibly miss 23 pages of the same content..??
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excell
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Posted: 2003-Dec-11 12:14
Try the term luxury accommodation which is not regionally specific.
I went through 10 pages before I lost interest and I think I saw only 2 other sites in those 100 results.
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