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A comment on How Google Is Cleaning The Web Of Comment Spam. Parent comment

Re:How Google Is Cleaning The Web Of Comment Spam by pgrote on Thursday December 26, 2013 @09:32PM (#6969146)
Does the disavowal tool negatively affect the sites being disavowed?
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Re:How Google Is Cleaning The Web Of Comment Spam by SteveGerencser on Thursday December 26, 2013 @11:44PM (#6969420)
It 'shouldn't otherwise it too could be used as a tool for negative campaigns. I would assume though that it will be used for looking at trends, footprints and other methods of better refining the detection algorithms.
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