Google Hot Trends: A new way to trap web spamming sites

Google Hot Trends (www.google.com/trends) is a utility that shows in almost real time what most people are searching right now on the Web.

While it is a great tool for learning what happens around the world, many webmasters have been abusing it, by posting keywords from Google Hot Trends on their site, in order to get high ranks in Search Engine Results (SERP).

However, it appears that such abuse has made angry the Google team (and it is logical) because is considered as web spamming. The result is that sites that abuse the Google Hot Trends tool are de-indexed from Google very soon or get a -30 to -950 penalty, eliminating the 90% of their visitors.

I don’t blame Google about this. It is the correct thing they do. Many sites where posting an article having a title with keywords from Google Hot Trends and its text contained just nonsense. This catched high results in search engine ranks, but it was completely useless for the visitors trying to get info about the specific keywords.

Google doesn’t like web spamming sites and tries to display only useful results, by filtering spamming sites. And I find it logical because none of the Internet users like them too.

So… stop abusing Google Hot Trends by posting keywords from it on your site, without any useful content. Your site will get soon de-indexed or penalized and you will loose all your visitors.

Post useful, unique and rich content. This will give you much visitors within a long period but they will remain forever. Getting 10.000 unique visitors within 2 weeks you create your site (eg. by abusing Google Hot Trends) will set off the web spamming alarms and your site will be de-indexed.

Microsoft and Yahoo restart talks

erh? Finally let someone buy something…

Yes, you read right, Microsoft and Yahoo restart talks.

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Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man

Unbelievable stories… what people exist on the Internet today?
ok, I don’t want to sound dramatic and I don’t mean that everybody is bad. But as in real life, the same on Internet, you must always be careful with strangers…

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These stories are becoming more common as Internet companies operate under the laws of many counties.

In February A Moroccan man was arrested for pretending to be the Moroccan king’s younger brother, Prince Moulay Rachid, on Facebook. Facebook complied with Morrocca information requests about the man, leading to his arrest. The man was granted a royal pardon after his sentencing, and was out of jail by mid March.

Today we’re hearing of another arrest, this time in India. 22-year-old IT professional Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid. His crime was writing in an orkut community named “I hate Sonia Gandhi.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Gandhi is a prominent politician in India.

Vaid was charged under section 292 of Indian Penal Code and section 67 of the Information TVechnology Act because he created a profile and then posted content in vulgar language about Sonia Gandhi in the community.

During investigations, the cyber crime cell of Pune police communicated with Google (which owns Orkut) seeking details about the who formed this forum and circulated the obscene content. It was known that the vulgar message about Sonia Gandhi was circulated through an email address – Rahulvaidindia@gmail.com . The owner of the email id Rahul Vaid was traced, using information supplied by Google, to Chakarpur in Gurgaon city of Haryana.

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Firefox 3 RC1 ready for download

What better way to start off a Saturday than to feel the R.E.A.L.
browsing vibe with the help of the Foxxy One 3.0? You don’t need to
answer that, just know that the Release Candidate 1 of Mozilla’s
Firefox 3 is now up for grabs.

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Google Overtakes Yahoo in Web Traffic

The bad news just doesn’t seem to end for Yahoo. As the Internet portal
prepares to fend off a proxy fight by billionaire investor Carl Icahn,
new research from comScore concludes that for the first time, Google
has overtaken Yahoo as the most-visited Web site in the U.S. Google
reached the pinnacle of the Top 50 U.S. Properties in April.

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The New Guy

The New Guy is a 2002 American teen comedy film directed by Ed Decter. It tells the story of a high school loser, Dizzy Gillespie Harrison. Under the assumed identity “Gil Harris”, he desperately changes his image and becomes one of the the cool kids.

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