{"id":9201,"date":"2011-07-06T12:15:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T17:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=9201"},"modified":"2023-12-24T07:45:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T13:45:11","slug":"google-drops-co-cc-sites-from-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/07\/google-drops-co-cc-sites-from-search-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Google drops co.cc sites from search results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"I<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Google has decided that all 11 million + co.cc websites are “too spammy” as a whole, and thus has removed them from their search results. Even though as a “domain” it is larger than .org (8 million) or .uk (9.1 million) it is not a proper second level domain. Rather, it is closer to a “freehost” and is operated by a Korean company (co.cc<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google’s Spam Team’s head Matt Cutts explains<\/a> the decision on his Google+ stream “To help protect users we recently modified those [malware scanning] systems to identify bulk subdomain services which are being abused. In some severe cases our systems may now flag the whole bulk domain.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this sucks for anyone who was trying to jump start a legitimate website on a free domain name, it’s entirely logical, and since co.cc is not a proper domain, then Google is entirely in the right here. Protecting users against phishing and spam is in their best interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: The Register<\/a><\/p>\n

Google says goodbye to 11 million ‘spammy’ websites! Have you ever visited a .co.cc site? 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