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- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/11/google_privila/
11 March 2008 - "Google has removed Privila sites from its index after the firm was caught attempting to hoodwink the search engine giant. Chicago-based Privila has built "portals" designed to have relatively high search engine ranking scores while presenting nothing but ads. The firm's modus operandi involves buying sites after the original owner forgets to renew a registration… The ruse came to light after researchers at Cambridge University's Computer Lab received a link invitation spam email from a Privila-run site. Steven Murdoch of Cambridge Uni discovered 329 websites in the Privila network after he investigated the business model behind spam emails unwisely sent to his colleague… "Curiously, the Windows Live Search, and Yahoo! spiders are presented with an almost empty page: just a header but neither adverts nor articles," Murdoch writes. Google purged Privila sites from its index on 8 March, a day after Murdoch wrote about the scam on Cambridge University's Light the Blue Touchpaper blog*. The sites remain unavailable…"
* http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2008/03…aces-of-privila
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/11/google_privila/
11 March 2008 - "Google has removed Privila sites from its index after the firm was caught attempting to hoodwink the search engine giant. Chicago-based Privila has built "portals" designed to have relatively high search engine ranking scores while presenting nothing but ads. The firm's modus operandi involves buying sites after the original owner forgets to renew a registration… The ruse came to light after researchers at Cambridge University's Computer Lab received a link invitation spam email from a Privila-run site. Steven Murdoch of Cambridge Uni discovered 329 websites in the Privila network after he investigated the business model behind spam emails unwisely sent to his colleague… "Curiously, the Windows Live Search, and Yahoo! spiders are presented with an almost empty page: just a header but neither adverts nor articles," Murdoch writes. Google purged Privila sites from its index on 8 March, a day after Murdoch wrote about the scam on Cambridge University's Light the Blue Touchpaper blog*. The sites remain unavailable…"
* http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2008/03…aces-of-privila