Key Insights from Google's Search Algorithm Leak Community Center by Johannes C. … data. * Google has systems to **demote pages** based on various **spam signals** and **poor user experiences**. * Google measures **siteAuthority**, contradicting [previous… yet but threatens to drown in a sea of shiny spam. Regarding the Google leak and what you can do to… Re: Dead Internet Theory: Is the Web Dying? Community Center by wwwalker About 40% of hits to my site are bots with some trying to find exploits on my site to hack it and use it to propagate spam. Very few humans are surfing the Web any more. iptables firewall has to be used to block the hackers. Re: Dead Internet Theory: Is the Web Dying? Community Center by Reverend Jim >Very few humans are surfing the Web any more I disagree. Just because the number of bots has grown exponentially relative to the number of meat-based surfers does not mean that very few humans are still surfing. Consider how much spam e-mail is sent every minute. That does not mean e-mail is dying. Re: Page is broken, showing deleted posts too Community Center by Dani As I always do when we get a big influx of spam, I evaluated what's getting through our spam bot and made some adjustments. It now catches an additional 22% of spam posts compared to 5 weeks ago. Re: Forum Backlinks Digital Media Digital Marketing by Dani … for the 100 that sign up just to spam the forums. Another anti-spam tactic used by a lot of forums is… Re: Why some people copy / paste LLM answers to a question as their own ? Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Dani … between now-deleted posts, and posts caught up by the spam filter, have a link either within the content, within a… Re: Forum Backlinks Digital Media Digital Marketing by Dani Do you have a history of spamming forums, or including backlinks to your website in your posts? Many forums use anti-spamming APIs such as StopForumSpam.com, so that if you spam on one forum, your IP, email address, etc. get flagged for all the other forums in the network as well. Re: Dead Internet Theory: Is the Web Dying? Community Center by Nina0X So, what can we do to prevent the web from dying? I guess web3 is the answer! If the technology enables then the internet should not only be used for connecting and sharing some kitties! The whole of humanity's wealth will be held on the Internet.. Re: Dead Internet Theory: Is the Web Dying? Community Center by pcbugfixer I believe it is. With AI involved and the misleading and duplicate information tells me that the WWW is corrupt and becoming useless. And it is the Spammers, Hackers and the like that did it. Time will tell Re: Dead Internet Theory: Is the Web Dying? Community Center by m_624 The Dead Internet Theory suggests that the internet is dying or already dead due to the prevalence of bots and automated content. However, the internet continues to grow and evolve, remaining a vital part of modern life. Re: Dead Internet Theory: Is the Web Dying? Community Center by stuwer12 This theme needs development, but I'm connected with a blockchain group who have what we call web 4.0, totally independent ,totally peer to peer with no outside interference or involvement Don't know if it would bring back relevancy to search, but connections are true blckcerts (or blockcertsai anyone interested ,;et me know and I'll send you a … Dead Internet Theory: Is the Web Dying? Community Center by Johannes C. … half of all internet traffic.** Of course, content monetization and spam have long been a problem affecting the quality of search… Re: Determine if email address is used by scammer Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by Puterwiz82 …my Gmail account, any new emails get sent to spam. I received one Friday afternoon. I know I …can just delete my spam emails but would like to have it deleted. …from that address get deleted and not sent to spam or can I leave it blocked and do …a rule so that these emails get deleted from spam so I don’t see that they sent … Re: Lots of new members but no one posts Community Center Meta DaniWeb by Dani I can confirm that's not happening. I can confirm they're just signing up and then leaving, and can also confirm they're not bots. There can't be *that* many people creating sleeper accounts for future spam attacks, so I'm ruling that out too. Plus, it's always been this way. Re: Determine if email address is used by scammer Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by rproffitt The police email scam is well known. That's about all you need to know that it's the scam of note. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/1b592gr/is_this_real/ r/Scams has many other scams of note. Worth noting: 1. Do not track them down. 2. Ignore, block and report as spam. 3. No police use a Gmail account. Re: Determine if email address is used by scammer Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by Puterwiz82 Thank you. It seems based on the email on Friday, they got mad I reposted it to spam. The same supposed police department has contacted previously. I attached the recent emails. ![IMG_3185.jpeg](https://static.daniweb.com/attachments/4/7b55edb5f07accf5e085c8309e4055be.jpeg) Re: Determine if email address is used by scammer Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by KomalBhatt … for personal information then it's very likely to be spam. And to confirm you can search the email address online… Re: Why some people copy / paste LLM answers to a question as their own ? Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Dani …. Either way, this content is against our rules, and our spam bot is already capturing a lot of it before it… Re: Dead Internet Theory: Is the Web Dying? Community Center by m_624 "Dead Internet Theory" is an idea that says the internet is becoming less genuine and less alive. Here's a simple explanation: The theory suggests that: Bots and Fake Content: A lot of what we see online is created by bots or automated programs, not real people. This includes social media posts, comments, and even articles. … Re: Dead Internet Theory: Is the Web Dying? Community Center by Reverend Jim Seems like an extension of Sturgeon's Law which states "90% of everything is crap". Spam swings from Viagra to Versace Hardware and Software by happygeek …the market driven swing from pharmaceutical and health related spam which has pretty much dominated the landscape during the…considering that this accounted for 75 percent of all spam in circulation during that period according to the Marshall …of major spammers which all but control the global spam distribution chain courtesy of the size of the … Re: Spam Community Center Geeks' Lounge by lasher511 … organisation/email hosting have installed a new spam filter and that is the reason for your… go ahead to go and buy a barracuda spam firewall and i can not fault it at all…half an hour to set up and started blocking spam straight away. Infact it was so easy we… and 80% of them have been blocked as spam with no legit emails getting blocked at all. … Spam Community Center Geeks' Lounge by tygerberg Hi When last have you recieved spam. I don't know what's happening, did they stop sending out spam. I can't remember when last I had spam in my spam folder or inbox. Re: Spam Community Center Geeks' Lounge by John A [QUOTE=tygerberg;417968]Hi When last have you recieved spam. I don't know what's happening, did they stop sending out spam. I can't remember when last I had spam in my spam folder or inbox.[/QUOTE] Surely you must be joking. And that's _my_ inbox, in case you're wondering. Re: Spam Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Dani I last received spam 35 minutes ago. Re: Spam Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Ancient Dragon I get spam in my email box several times a day. Don't recall seeing any about sex for quite some time now. Most of the ones I get now are like "How to make millions by doing nothing". Re: Spam Community Center Geeks' Lounge by jasimp I have been getting more spam then ever. Re: Spam Community Center Geeks' Lounge by quintoncoert I cannot remember getting any spam for months either. Re: Spam Community Center Geeks' Lounge by jwenting last spam got through my 3 layers of filters half an hour ago. I don't even bother looking at what gets caught by my ISP, knowing it runs close to 2 per minute. Re: Spam Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Sturm I never get spam on my main gmail account. I have another account that I sign up for things with.