Google is set to make changes to their ranking algorithm after a recent outbreak of SPAM links started dominating search results. The update will remove a number malware links from the Google Index which is great news for legitimate site owners. Just last week I reported on a major Google SPAM attack which saw over [...]

For starters, what is web spam and what’s its function? In the patents we’re looking at today, they describe spam as websites constructed with random or targeted content and links in order to, “to trick the analysis algorithms used by search engines” into ranking the pages higher than they should (bit of an oxy moron [...]