Just clued into a new Google search parameter spam variant: "adurl".
A quick search shows that is some sort of AdSense thingie.
Does anyone have a marketing-dweeb-free technical explanation?
I've sent out a new rule to my Team to MassCheck, but it'll probably be a
few days before I have numbers. Not surprisingly, a 3-month MassCheck on
my geek domains produced zero ham hits. :)
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Ben Lentz wrote:
>Thank you, this is very valuable.
I'm glad I could help. I've learned more about fighting spam from this
list, than any other place I've lurked. :)
Thinking about it some more, I just upped our default score to 150% of kill.
My big concern is the auto-redirection aspect - imagine that being used as
a malware vector.
I strongly recommend you go higher than "3.0" (though I see the wisdom in
starting there, doing some MassChecks, etc). I'd also broaden the matching
to _ANY_ Google domain (sorry, I'm not a regex person so can't help you -
I'm sure one of the wizards will).
Your GooglePages score is a fair compromise.
I'm hoping other people will generate some ham frequency numbers, so we can
all get a feel for what's the best score. :)
>I wonder if Google will ever consider
>turning it off, since it's being abused.
I commend you for your optimism, however Google has done more to degrade the
security of normal users than any other business I can think of.
I doubt they would ever put ethics ahead of profit. :(
- "Chip"
