Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search

Re:Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search by zemaj on Thursday January 06, 2011 @05:05AM (#2074772)

It's seems to me like an explicit "Report Spam" button would help. The problem with SearchWiki & "Remove result" is that they have many other influencing factors as to why people would click those buttons.

People are pretty good at recognising "scams", but you need to tell them that's what they're looking for, not just how the content makes them feel. It seems like the report spam button was a large factor behind gmail's spam filtering success. Would love to see the same approach applied here. I know I'd be hitting my report spam button in chrome pretty often :)

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Re:Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search by Matt_Cutts on Thursday January 06, 2011 @10:52AM (#2075726)

Here's a Chrome extension we wrote to allow explicit "Report spam" feedback: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/efinmbicabejjhja...

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Re:Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search by zemaj on Thursday January 06, 2011 @09:32PM (#2078322)

I still feel like it's not simple enough to be practical. I'd only really use a button that submitted the form behind the scenes. I think the extra step of filling out the fields is likely to drop my submission rate down to times I really get pissed off :)

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Re:Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search by Maro on Thursday January 06, 2011 @05:15AM (#2074785)

Wouldn't spammers just "Report Spam" their competitors?

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Re:Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search by zemaj on Thursday January 06, 2011 @05:25AM (#2074802)

If that strategy worked, spammers could use it in gmail to void spam filter utility. I'm sure the volume of legitimate requests would help drown that noise.

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