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Re:Google Web spam - Gabriel Weinberg's Blog by epi0Bauqu on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @05:56PM (#1552870)
They mean something, i.e. that they "are in their index in some form." I've been blacklisted before, and when you're blacklisted, you don't show up in site: queries.

That said, I wanted to acknowledge that this isn't ranking data. However, perhaps as a result of this post, I'll be able to get some and re-post those results.

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Re:Google Web spam - Gabriel Weinberg's Blog by skinnymuch on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @05:40AM (#1553961)
I'm sure you would agree with this but in case others are reading, simply blacklisting these sites wouldn't be the best thing to do. Many are simply expired or parked pages.
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Re:Google Web spam - Gabriel Weinberg's Blog by epi0Bauqu on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @06:00AM (#1553988)
Google visits domains all the time so they should be aware quite quickly when things move from spam/parked to non-spam/non-parked. Therefore, I don't see why they shouldn't all be out of the index until they have useful content on them.
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