WordPress Caught Spamming After Enlisting To Fight Spam
by Sapphire (April 1, 2005)
Turns out WordPress.org has been spamming the search engines itself. Not through blog comments, but via their own pages. The article linked above explains it better than I can, but I’ll try to snapshot it:
Some of the tricks they’re using are without a doubt designed to steal AdSense/AdWords clicks. That’s click fraud, which I’ve blogged about more in the past. There’s no question they’re screwing up search results for searchers looking for real information.
To be clear, this is not the reason I’m switching this blog from WordPress to Serendipity in a couple of weeks - that’s all about functionality. But this makes me feel even better about that decision.
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