Comments on: Google Notebook – New Way to Spam? http://www.metamend.com/blog/2006/05/16/google-notebook-new-way-to-spam/ Search engine and Website Marketing tips, information, news and opinion from Metamend's team of SEM and SEO experts. The Metamend Blog covers SEO, search engines, search trends, search engine optimization and marketing. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:58:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: SEO Consultant Esoos Bobnar http://www.metamend.com/blog/2006/05/16/google-notebook-new-way-to-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-4782 SEO Consultant Esoos Bobnar Wed, 17 May 2006 02:30:58 +0000 http://www.metamend.com/blog/?p=221#comment-4782 <strong>Google Notebook = One More User Action Tracking Device</strong> Google Notebook is live, and Graywolf has a good review. Richard Zwicky proposes it might be a new way to spam Google. Most likely, similar to spamming Yahoo Answers, that'll probably be way more trouble than it's worth, but it might be one more way ... Google Notebook = One More User Action Tracking Device

Google Notebook is live, and Graywolf has a good review. Richard Zwicky proposes it might be a new way to spam Google. Most likely, similar to spamming Yahoo Answers, that’ll probably be way more trouble than it’s worth, but it might be one more way …

]]> By: Michael @ SEOG http://www.metamend.com/blog/2006/05/16/google-notebook-new-way-to-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-4777 Michael @ SEOG Tue, 16 May 2006 18:58:56 +0000 http://www.metamend.com/blog/?p=221#comment-4777 Hi Richard That thought came to mind but I didn't mention it in my initial review of Google notebook, located here: http://seog.net/9 I imagine Google will use and is using things such as Google notebook, google bookmarks, search queries, and other aspects of user data to determine relevancy and sites which are working for their users. I do think spammers would consider this, but there is also a time aspect and other variables that Google should be able to filter out. With the example you use, those users would probably come from a range of ip addresses, different areas of the country and also have types of usage patterns that look like a real person. You are right that for some people, if they felt that there was a payback to it, they might hire a bunch of cheap laborers to create links etc. But in order to do it right and scale it across ip addresses and all of the other things that make it look like real data...I think that would be difficult. Google is getting smarter about filtering about spam blogs and I imagine many of the same characteristics would apply here. Hi Richard
That thought came to mind but I didn’t mention it in my initial review of Google notebook, located here: http://seog.net/9

I imagine Google will use and is using things such as Google notebook, google bookmarks, search queries, and other aspects of user data to determine relevancy and sites which are working for their users. I do think spammers would consider this, but there is also a time aspect and other variables that Google should be able to filter out.

With the example you use, those users would probably come from a range of ip addresses, different areas of the country and also have types of usage patterns that look like a real person. You are right that for some people, if they felt that there was a payback to it, they might hire a bunch of cheap laborers to create links etc. But in order to do it right and scale it across ip addresses and all of the other things that make it look like real data…I think that would be difficult. Google is getting smarter about filtering about spam blogs and I imagine many of the same characteristics would apply here.

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