If the page you talked about was nofollowed, shouldn’t this page also be?

http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini/success_stories.html

What about these pages?
https://adwords.google.com/select/success.html
http://www.google.com/ads/success.html
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/stories/index.html
http://www.google.com/enterprise/superstars/success.html

All of them have regular links – shouldn’t they all be nofollowed? Of course this will truly showcase the ridiculousness of the current paid links “controversy”

I have authenticated tagged my site for google in regards to spam reproting – a certain site is ranking high in the search engines using
hidden text on the top and bottom – google has not responded to
this – any feedback versus going to SES and tracking down Adam
and yourself – this site is taking over $250 000 a year in business
away from me – using black hat techhiques and I have reported
this site for over 10 months with various rates of success – it lost
a lot of inbound links and disappeared for a while – now its
back hurting my company using unfair techniques. Besides a
spam report what options do I have…..

Jim

I have noticed that Google recently implemented automatic spelling correction in its search results.
E.g. looking for “NIT basketball” from Netherlands, returns Dutch sites with the words “basketball” and “niet” (’not’ in English), which is very annoying.
Any way to turn this function off?

I hope you still go back and review comments on old posts. Today, there are several complaint comments on google groups for maps for business owners.

The complaints are similar to those by the person from Duke Medical Center and others. Wrong phone numbers appear. Websites that don’t represent the search query appear.

G Maps has inserted lots of data into its data base. A certain signigicant amount of this data is coming from old or outdated sources. Other information is showing in a G Maps algo that does not seem to be as logical as basic G search.

I’m sure G is seeing dramatic increases in traffic off of the maps inserts directly into that source. Unfortunately G maps has information that is not current from existing web sites or is working w/ an algo that is inferior.

Businesses are complaining. One business noted that a little old lady is getting misdirected calls to its business. Possibly not as dramatic as flooding the wrong numbers at a medical center but no way to treat a senior citizen.

Corrections are being made but they are not being made quickly or thoroughly. In fact it takes a dramatic complaint to get a quick change or one has to deeply research what is happening to ascertain how to “possibly” get Google customer research to act more quickly.

Almost exactly two years ago Google made algo changes for local search queries that dramatically improved its search logic for local queries like Rochester NY dentist. Now it has changed the search landscape via inserting maps at the top of a page….and the maps information is often misleading. Its an algo and logic step backwards.

I hope the powers to be take a more active role in addressing these problems.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLF,GGLF:2006-19,GGLF:en&q=Why+am+I+seeing+this+website%3f

It’s not so much the results themselves as the alternative suggestion:

Did you mean: Why am I seen this website?

The same thing happens with or without quotes.

To be fair, I was only looking to find something relatively obscure and web-geeky (another example of a domain squatter page), so this is one of those “if you weren’t such a nerd, you wouldn’t have discovered this” things. I’m just hearing the voices of my past English teachers floating around in my head (no wait…hang on…now I’m hearing Saliva….oh yeah, I’m wearing headphones…never mind.)

I just paid $10,000.00. A few friends of mine were gonna sign up too, to get that Pagerank 7 link.

Anywho I just filled out a spam report but thought I’d mention the query here too just because it is one of the most dominating instances of spam I’ve seen. I found it when doing some keyword research for a client, and while the keyword isn’t too competitive it is quite shocking that a spammer could get around 80 nearly consecutive listings in Google for it starting at about result #7. Subdomain spam is alive and well apparently.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGIH,GGIH:2007-04,GGIH:en&q=afro+american+hair+braiding+technique