It would be so easy to stop spammers from manipulating google and I
don't understand why they just don't do this:
1. Get rid of the google tollbar which tells spammers the pagerank of a
site. Without knowing the pagerank of a blog comment or guestbook
spammers would be in the dark as to whether it was spam worthy or not.
2. Get rid of two links they show at every url address listed in google,
the links that say Link: and Contain the Terms: are the two links by the
url address (when you do a url address search). Without those two links
which show all the backlinks of a site in google spammers would have no
links to spam at would they? They would also need to disbale the code
for finding backlinks for sites in google.
It seems pretty simple to me that if spammers couldn't find backlinks of
other sites and didn't know the pagerank of them as well then the
spamming would be all but over, pretty much anyway. They coudl still get
lots of free and real domains and do some creative link farming to
create their own link popularity but they would be in the blind
completely as to which guestbooks, blog comments, message boards ect
were worth posting to.
Now if Google really wanted to stop spam that would be all they would
have to do to stop it. The algo could still be based on link popularity
just as it always was only it would be invisible to viewers where that
link popularity was coming from. It's the high and easy visiblity of
backlinks and their pagerank that Google merrily shows that are creating
the spam problem in google and not their algo or the link popularity
idea.
There's absoluteley no reason in the world why people would need to see
the backlinks and pagerank of sites and it does nothing to enhance
search. It only helps spammers to spam better. The truth is out there.
