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They must be getting desperate if they are stooping to spamming linking building (or hiring a spamy link builder)
Pity they blew it by going so very public before it was ready.
So the question is, is somebody trying to discredit Cuil, or are they really this stupid?
So the question is, is somebody trying to discredit Cuil.
I'd be apt to believe that is the situation. I'd definitely be looking at and, following the trail of those email headers to confirm that Cuil is getting desperate. If that is the case, then my Bank, PayPal, and quite a few other brands are really desperate. ;)
If that is the case, then my Bank, PayPal, and quite a few other brands are really desperate. ;)
That's a good point PageOne, however I'm not talking about emails, just comment spam link building. Certainly could be someone trying to discredit them but not likely. There's no fishing going on like the typical Bank, PayPal email. Strictly link building-
New Search Engine- (link to cuil)x165 over the last 24 hours.
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Let's hope we can hear some kind of official comment from cuil on this...
Posted a thread about it but it hasn't been let through yet.
That massive amount of press and free links they received this year was not enough.
It will take most of us a decade to get that many backlinks.
It is likely that someone is posting links to sites such as ours in an effort to disguise their true intent and trick comment filtering systems...So, to put the record straight: it's not cool, and it's not us
It is likely that someone is posting links to sites such as ours in an effort to disguise their true intent and trick comment filtering systems.
It happened to me. I ended up on the Askimet blacklists and had no idea why at first.
Ya see, this stuff works both ways. Many say that someone wouldn't waste their time to do this. Well, here is a prime example of it happening and potentially having the intended effect.
Cuil must have served up the wrong results for a search or something. Maybe an incorrect image associated with a search result? Could have pissed someone off. ;)
It's automated software anyway, there's not much barrier to entry. And some of the email addresses used for the Cuil spam had somewhat "suggestive" histories too ;)
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How ironic!
We don't have that many blogs, but they all got hit. Everyone. The only pitch was text and link for Cuil. Why discredit? Maybe somebody is disgruntled. They don't have a product to discredit at this point.
If they are only 'disguising true intent' they are doing a very good job.
As far as the response on their own blog, we do not 'nofollow' legitimate links posted on our blogs, and while I understand that can provide some protection from being associated with 'bad neighborhoods', it is no big deal to delete spam and give our users the 'follow' that they deserve if they have made a useful post for our users. The 'nofollow' is lame and lazy for our purposes - though I understand why some choose to go that route or think that they should.
Looks like someone is testing some kind of hackage.
Looks like a successful test.
One of our websites shows a competitors logo as the image.
I am seeing this too for dozens of queries for one of our sites
as a sidenote, we once had a *person* (stupid or not, you decide) spamming various boards, linking to one of our sites. the comments were along the lines of "this site is the best", "all other sites are crap", etc
to this day i don't know who or why they did it
i contacted the blog/board owners (the ones that i could find), apologised and explained that no-one from our company had posted the messages.
strange situation to be in!
as a sidenote, we once had a *person* (stupid or not, you decide) spamming various boards, linking to one of our sites. the comments were along the lines of "this site is the best", "all other sites are crap", etcto this day i don't know who or why they did it
One of our websites shows a competitors logo as the image.
It has been doing this since day one unfortunately and they don't seem to have the skills to fix it.
I found tons of errors in my httpd logs. They were for crazy, deep, nested requests where they had bunched together many different directories from my site and requested pages in these new random areas that didn't exist.
I asked Cuil about this, and they basically told me that they only check links that they find from other sites. This is complete nonsense. They seem to be doing some other kind of digging. Combined with what I see above, I think these guys are up to something.
