CronoDAS comments on Is Google Paperclipping the Web? The Perils of Optimization by Proxy in Social Systems - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 10 May 2010 08:21:06PM 1 point [-]

Google does have a page to complain about spam results, and I've used it a few times. I don't know if it makes any difference, though.

Comment author: SilasBarta 10 May 2010 10:24:00PM 3 points [-]

Do spammers use that page to complain about legit sites, wasting Google's time and/or hurting its algorithm via false positives?

Comment author: thomblake 10 May 2010 10:34:47PM 6 points [-]

Shh... they hadn't thought of that!

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