Google takes action against spammer; Bans 7 Billion pages

Earlier this week there was an article released, explaining how one spammer got billions of pages crawled and indexed by google, by using a sub-domain trick.

Well, Google has now taken action against the spammer, and has banned 7 billion pages. Here is a fun alexa graph, of one of the spammer’s domains. You can see exactly when Google banned the pages.

Don’t F with google, man!

Source: Digg

Spammers looking to purchase large MySpace profiles

Need some extra cash? Sell your MySpace profile to spammers. Waxy linked to a blog of a MySpace user, which received a message in his inbox from a company looking to purchase MySpace profiles, of users who have at least 20,000 friends.

From: Jessica
Date: Jun 14, 2006 7:55 PM
Subject: TOP CASH FOR YOUR MYSPACE ACCOUNT
Body: If you have over 20,000 myspace friends in your account and would like to sell it, please contact me
I’m offering top dollar for these accounts. So, if you or someone you know wants to sell, then I’m looking to buy. ;-)