Big Bug: Google Blocks All Results When Blocking Spam

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AdSubtract Software Blocks Paid Results

AdSubtract Software Blocks Paid Results 12/09/2003 07:27 PM
The company says the tool is not designed to target the results of search engines like Google, which does a good job of separating paid links from algorithmic ...

AdSubtract Blocks Paid Search Results

AdSubtract Blocks Paid Search Results 12/08/2003 07:09 PM
While some search engines, such as Google, do a good job of segregating paid advertisements visually and spatially from legitimate search results, other search ...

Spam Blocking Techniques

Spam Blocking Techniques 08/10/2004 06:01 PM

You've Got Spam: AOL Blocks 1/2 Trillion
Spam

You've Got Spam: AOL Blocks 1/2 Trillion
Spam 01/03/2004 12:15 AM
yohaas writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that AOL blocked more than 500 billion spam messages for its users in 2003. That comes to 40 messages a day per user. ...

Yahoo spam-blocking standard released

Yahoo spam-blocking standard released 05/19/2004 04:17 PM
Yahoo's DomainKeys technology for blocking spam at the server level has been submitted to a standards-setting body for approval. If widely adopted, it would kill most spam containing spoofed headers.

VeriSign launches spam-blocking service

VeriSign launches spam-blocking service 06/29/2004 11:58 AM
ZDNet UK Jun 29 2004 3:25PM GMT

Comcast blocks spam loophole

Comcast blocks spam loophole 06/10/2004 04:02 PM
Cable ISP singles out broadband Internet accounts suspected of sending mass amounts of unsolicited e-mail.

FCC Blocks Spam on Wireless Devices

FCC Blocks Spam on Wireless Devices 08/05/2004 02:31 PM
The FCC wants to stop spam from reaching your PDA and/or cell phone. It's a step in the right direction and much appreciated, but may not protect cell phones and PDAs from forwarded spam emails.

The Federal Communications Commission yesterday moved to prevent cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) from becoming the next major frontier for e-mail spam.

The agency issued rules requiring marketers to have explicit permission from wireless-device users before they can be sent any commercial e-mail. And it urged the industry to develop technologies to prevent spam from overwhelming wireless devices the way it has swamped computer messaging.

"By prohibiting all commercial messages to wireless phones and PDAs absent affirmative consent from the consumer, Americans can now use their wireless devices freely, without being bothered by unwanted and annoying messages," FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell said in a prepared statement.

The rule covers a rapidly expanding array of Web-based e-mail services offered by wireless providers that enable customers to send and read messages via their phones or PDAs.

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Telia blocks spam-sending Zombie PCs

Telia blocks spam-sending Zombie PCs 11/04/2003 07:33 AM
Trojans nipped in the bud

Swedish ISP Blocks Computers That Send
Spam

Swedish ISP Blocks Computers That Send
Spam 11/04/2003 03:04 AM
snuppepuppan writes "One of Sweden's largest ISPs, Telia starts to block computers that send spam. 'The computers that Telia will block are primarily those ...

Comcast Port 25 Blocks Result In Less
Spam

Comcast Port 25 Blocks Result In Less
Spam 06/30/2004 07:46 PM

FCC Blocks Spam on Wireless Devices
(washingtonpost.com)

FCC Blocks Spam on Wireless Devices
(washingtonpost.com) 08/05/2004 07:04 AM
washingtonpost.com - The Federal Communications Commission yesterday moved to prevent cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) from becoming the next major frontier for e-mail spam.

CMP Says It's Not Blocking Google

CMP Says It's Not Blocking Google 06/25/2004 11:54 AM

CMP Techweb.com's editor in chief, Fredric Paul, says the report I linked to yesterday is incorrect. He writes:

Anyway, we saw that you picked up the CyberJournalist piece on CMP blocking access to our stories from Google News. I don't know where that came from, but it is wrong. We do not and have never blocked access from Google or any other search engine. That's easily testable, try it yourself. We do, however, intercept links from certain competitors who reproduce significant portions of our stories on their own pages -- sometimes even stealing the first link-- before they finally post a link to our original material. In most cases, the intercept we put up allows the reader to then click to their intended destination. Other major technology publishers, including IDG, do similar things. We're not just old media, and we're not completely clueless.

Italy's TIM Blocks Vodafone Texts After
Spam Spat (Reuters)

Italy's TIM Blocks Vodafone Texts After
Spam Spat (Reuters) 06/24/2004 09:47 AM
Reuters - Italy's top mobile phone group TIM (TIM.MI) is enraging customers by blocking text messages sent from British-based rival Vodafone (VOD.L) phones after a spat about "fake messages."

China Blocking Google or Google Blocking
China

China Blocking Google or Google Blocking
China 09/03/2002 11:37 AM
Wide spread reports are coming in that access to Google from China is being blocked. It is unclear whether this is a Google action or a Chinese action. From the reports, it sounds like it is on Googles end.

MSN rivals Google with its own pop-up
blocking toolbar

MSN rivals Google with its own pop-up
blocking toolbar 01/27/2004 06:39 AM
Revolution Jan 27 2004 10:34AM GMT

Now Google Getting Sued For Blocking
Trademarked Terms

Now Google Getting Sued For Blocking
Trademarked Terms 12/12/2003 03:10 PM
A few months back, France fined Google for selling ads based on trademarked terms. I was surprised, because in my own experiments with Google ads, I've had a few ads that were rejected because they (according to Google) contained trademarked terms. Personally, I don't see how buying a keyword is, in any way, a violation of trademark. The point of a trademark is to protect the company from having someone else appear to be you. You can't sell Bob's Cola and put a Coca-Cola label on it. However, if someone is looking for Coca-Cola, there's nothing wrong with suggesting they might also want to look at Bob's Cola, as well. Anyway, now it looks like Google may get hit from the other side as well. They've been fined for selling ads based on trademarks, and now, apparently, they're going to ge t sued for blocking ads based on trademark complaints. The pending lawsuit apparently says that Google is banning ads on terms that aren't trademarked as soon as anyone complains. That is, Google doesn't check to see if there's an actual trademark - they just ban the ad as soon as there's a complaint. The group that's going to sue says they've brought together over 3,000 complaining advertisers who have had ads blocked. As mentioned, I've had my ads blocked too, but this seems like a ridiculous lawsuit. Where in the law does it say that Google has to sell you ads for whatever you want? They have the right to reject ads for whatever reason they want. It is their system, after all. If people believe they're blocking ads unfairly, then isn't that an opening for competitors to better serve advertisers by offering them something that Google doesn't?

Is Google blocking third party GMail
notifiers?

Is Google blocking third party GMail
notifiers? 08/31/2004 03:16 PM
Search Engine Journal Aug 31 2004 6:18PM GMT

Poll Results: How many Spam you get

Poll Results: How many Spam you get 02/15/2004 09:28 AM

Google Blocks Evil

Google Blocks Evil 04/09/2004 03:54 PM

Did you know that Google blocks the devil and all of his henchmen:

Thanks Google!

Over 2 Million Results on Google for
Google Stock News

Over 2 Million Results on Google for
Google Stock News 06/22/2004 02:47 AM
Google Stock and Google IPO is a very high profile issue in both the finance and online world. There are millions of information pages about Google Stock with no real answers to key questions. A new site, Google-Stock (www.google-stock.net), launched today a free service to bring the hot headlines on Google to your own inbox, saving time searching through millions of results. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2004]

CyberJournalist.net: CMP blocks Google
News

CyberJournalist.net: CMP blocks Google
News 06/25/2004 05:29 AM
let's turn away all traffic from Google News .. CMP blocks Google News referers

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Google blocks Web worm Santy.A

Google blocks Web worm Santy.A 12/29/2004 08:44 PM
The Hindu Business Line Dec 30 2004 12:40AM GMT

Early results of U.S. anti-spam law
doubtful

Early results of U.S. anti-spam law
doubtful 01/11/2004 03:45 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Jan 11 2004 2:03PM ET

Google China news blocks confirmed

Google China news blocks confirmed 09/26/2004 03:14 PM
p2pnet.net Sep 26 2004 5:40PM GMT

Google works in Google Glossary to
Results

Google works in Google Glossary to
Results 07/15/2004 05:27 PM
Google starts to display actual content in SERPs.

CMP Blocks Google News Because Their
Lawyers Want Fewer Visitors

CMP Blocks Google News Because Their
Lawyers Want Fewer Visitors 06/24/2004 06:03 PM
Sometimes it's worth repeating the mantra that lawyers understand the law, and not business. Just because a lawyer tells your business it can do something, it doesn't necessarily make sense to actually do it. It makes absolutely no sense, for instance, that CMP has apparently decided to ban all incoming links from Google News, just because they excerpt a couple sentences (and maybe an image). They are actively turning away traffic, and this is a business that is based on advertising. Perhaps this is just a mistake, but if it's not, it's a stupid policy that is going to cost CMP plenty of visitors (read: ad revenue) because some lawyers made a bad decision. Do they really think this will somehow bring them more visitors who will go to their front page instead? It won't. It will bring them many fewer visitors, because they've just cut off their most directed channel of traffic.

Google news service in China blocks
banned sites

Google news service in China blocks
banned sites 09/25/2004 05:22 PM
CTV.ca Sep 25 2004 8:11PM GMT

Odd Google Results

Odd Google Results 12/23/2002 07:53 AM
Odd Google Results Here's an odd Google result for "Joel's Currency Converter" [_Go_] Now don't get me wrong -- I understand why it came up. Still I wonder about this result when what I really wanted was this. But I can't bitch much at all -- the result I was expecting was right on top. I'm more just observing.

It's 5:00. Do you know what your Google
results are?

It's 5:00. Do you know what your Google
results are? 02/03/2003 06:21 PM
Boston Globe: A Nation of Voyuers, How the Internet search engine Google is changing what we can find out about one another - and raising questions about whether we should. "Google changed our concept of time as well. It has helped make our past - or oddly refracted shards of it - present and permanent. That's a radical notion for a medium usually defined by its ability to constantly update itself." "It's the collapse of inconvenience," says Siva Vaidhyanathan, assistant professor of culture and communication at New York University. "It turns out inconvenience was a really important part of our lives, and we didn't realize it."...

Google Results via RSS

Google Results via RSS 08/27/2004 01:51 PM

Rajiv is beta testing Google.RSS, a service which uses the Google API to return search results as an RSS feed.

Google Results on iWon

Google Results on iWon 08/05/2002 10:45 PM
First AOL, now Iwon.

Red Alert: Google Results on AOL - Now

Red Alert: Google Results on AOL - Now 07/23/2002 11:00 AM
Search AOL now staring results by Google. Appears to be a beta site.

Use Google the Wrong Way to get the
Right Results

Use Google the Wrong Way to get the
Right Results 09/13/2004 04:17 PM
Source: Search Engine Lowdown - How do you search for something on the web that search engines cache, but they won’t let you search for? I recently found myself with just such a dilemma....

Results of Google IPO May Be Muted

Results of Google IPO May Be Muted 05/10/2004 01:26 AM
Los Angeles Times May 10 2004 5:48AM GMT

Better search results than Google?

Better search results than Google? 01/05/2004 12:19 PM
CNN Jan 5 2004 10:58AM ET

Better Search Results Than Google?

Better Search Results Than Google? 01/05/2004 04:11 PM
Mechanik writes "CNN has an AP article about the next generation of up and coming search tools, which try to cope with the glut of hits that result from ...

Google Ad Links Results

Google Ad Links Results 03/22/2005 03:46 PM
"I am finding that in the case of Ad Links, that if a surfer clicks on the Ad Link in the ad unit, nearly *all* click through to at least one of the sponsored listings on the second page."

Seeing Two Sets of Google Results

Seeing Two Sets of Google Results 03/22/2005 03:46 PM
(subscription required): Members are seeing two distinct sets of Google results. Possibly a prelude to an update.
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