How does Yahoo Search define spam?

August 30, 2013

Beverly Author Level X³ August 30, 2013, 3:08 pm

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Yahoo Search defines spam as:

Some pages are created deliberately to trick the search engine into offering inappropriate, redundant or poor-quality search results. This is often called "spam."

Can you give some examples of types of pages or activities on a site that might be considered spam by Yahoo's definition?

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September 18, 2013

andgkj 13 years ago

Search for some c# program codes. Yahoo search leads to sites which have similar subject and it is searched on a site, with 0 results. Basically those sites create pages dynamically, based on search query.

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April 19, 2015

Mahalia 12 years ago

That sounds a lot like Google's definition of spam.

Google also classifies pages filled with endless lists of phone numbers as spam. These pages don't really serve a purpose

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