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Pushing Bad Data Google's Latest Black Eye ?
Google stopped counting, or at least publicly displaying, the number of pages it indexed in September of 05, after a school-yard "measuring contest" with rival Yahoo. That count topped out around 8 billion pages before it was removed from the homepage. News broke recently through various SEO forums that Google had suddenly, over the past few weeks, added another few billion pages to the index. This might sound like a reason for celebration, but this "accomplishment" would not reflect well on the search engine that achieved it.
What had people buzzing was the nature of the fresh, new few billion pages. They were blatant spam-containing Pay-Per-Click (PPC) ads, scraped content, and they were, in many cases, showing up well in the search results. They pushed out far older, more established sites in doing so. A Google representative responded via forums to the issue by calling it a "bad data push," something that met with various groans throughout the SEO community.
How did someone manage to dupe Google into indexing so many pages of spam in such a short period of time? I'll provide a high level overview of the process, but don't get too excited. Like a diagram of a nuclear explosive, it isn't going to teach you how to make the real thing, you're not going to be able to run off and do it yourself after reading this article. Yet it makes for an interesting tale, one that illustrates the ugly problems cropping up with ever increasing frequency in the world's most popular search engine.
A Dark and Stormy Night
Our story begins deep in the heart of Moldva, sandwiched scenically between Romania and the Ukraine. In between fending off local vampire attacks, an enterprising local had a brilliant idea and ran with it, presumably away from the vampires... His idea was to exploit how Google handled subdomains, and not just a little bit, but in a big way.
The heart of the issue is that currently, Google treats subdomains much the same way as it treats full domains-as unique entities. This means it will add the homepage of a subdomain to the index and return at some point later to do a "deep crawl." Deep crawls are simply the spider following links from the domain's homepage deeper into the site until it finds everything or gives up and comes back later for more.
Briefly, a subdomain is a "third-level domain." You've probably seen them before, they look something like this: subdomain.domain.com. Wikipedia, for instance, uses them for languages; the English version is "en.wikipedia.org", the Dutch version is "nl.wikipedia.org." Subdomains are one way to organize large sites, as opposed to multiple directories or even separate domain names altogether.
So, we have a kind of page Google will index virtually "no questions asked." It's a wonder no one exploited this situation sooner. Some commentators believe the reason for that may be this "quirk" was introduced after the recent "Big Daddy" update. Our Eastern European friend got together some servers, content scrapers, spambots, PPC accounts, and some all-important, very inspired scripts, and mixed them all together thusly...
Five Billion Served - And Counting...
First, our hero here crafted scripts for his servers that would, when GoogleBot dropped by, start generating an essentially endless number of subdomains, all with a single page containing keyword-rich scraped content, keyworded links, and PPC ads for those keywords. Spambots are sent out to put GoogleBot on the scent via referral and comment spam to tens of thousands of blogs around the world. The spambots provide the broad setup, and it doesn't take much to get the dominos to fall.
GoogleBot finds the spammed links and, as is its purpose in life, follows them into the network. Once GoogleBot is sent into the web, the scripts running the servers simply keep generating pages- page after page, all with a unique subdomain, all with keywords, scraped content, and PPC ads. These pages get indexed and suddenly you've got yourself a Google index 3-5 billion pages heavier in under 3 weeks.
Reports indicate, at first, the PPC ads on these pages were from Adsense, Google's own PPC service. The ultimate irony then is Google benefits financially from all the impressions being charged to Adsense users as they appear across these billions of spam pages. The Adsense revenues from this endeavor were the point, after all. Cram in so many pages that, by sheer force of numbers, people would find and click on the ads in those pages, making the spammer a nice profit in a very short amount of time.
Billions or Millions? What is Broken?
Word of this achievement spread like wildfire from the DigitalPoint forums. It spread like wildfire in the SEO community, to be specific. The "general public" is, as of yet, out of the loop, and will probably remain so. A response by a Google engineer appeared on a Threadwatch thread about the topic, calling it a "bad data push". Basically, the company line was they have not, in fact, added 5 billion pages. Later claims include assurances the issue will be fixed algorithmically. Those following the situation (by tracking the known domains the spammer was using) see only that Google is removing them from the index manually.
The tracking is accomplished using the "site:" command. A command that, theoretically, displays the total number of indexed pages from the site you specify after the colon. Google has already admitted there are problems with this command, and "5 billion pages", they seem to be claiming, is merely another symptom of it. These problems extend beyond merely the site: command, but the display of the number of results for many queries, which some feel are highly inaccurate and in some cases fluctuate wildly. Google admits they have indexed some of these spammy subdomains, but so far haven't provided any alternate numbers to dispute the 3-5 billion shown initially via the site: command.
Over the past week the number of the spammy domains & subdomains indexed has steadily dwindled as Google personnel remove the listings manually. There's been no official statement that the "loophole" is closed. This poses the obvious problem that, since the way has been shown, there will be a number of copycats rushing to cash in before the algorithm is changed to deal with it.
Conclusions
There are, at minimum, two things broken here. The site: command and the obscure, tiny bit of the algorithm that allowed billions (or at least millions) of spam subdomains into the index. Google's current priority should probably be to close the loophole before they're buried in copycat spammers. The issues surrounding the use or misuse of Adsense are just as troubling for those who might be seeing little return on their advertising budget this month.
Do we "keep the faith" in Google in the face of these events? Most likely, yes. It is not so much whether they deserve that faith, but that most people will never know this happened. Days after the story broke there's still very little mention in the "mainstream" press. Some tech sites have mentioned it, but this isn't the kind of story that will end up on the evening news, mostly because the background knowledge required to understand it goes beyond what the average citizen is able to muster. The story will probably end up as an interesting footnote in that most esoteric and neoteric of worlds, "SEO History."
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