Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Google has fixed the 302 spam problem

A previously mentioned problem that Google was having with scraper sites hijacking URLs with dodgy 302 redirects appears to have been solved, or at least the guys at Google have it in hand. I think people expect Google to fix problems on the fly as we can with our small websites, but in reality, any change to their system must require a lot of forethought and testing, considering how vast their network is. They are working with affected webmasters to try to solve the problem, and there are now fewer scraper sites in the index, which makes searchers, webmasters, and Google all happy.

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