Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Bloggers: Google 'sandboxing' sites | News.blog | CNET News.com:
"Two recent blogs seem to put rumors to rest about whether Google uses a 'sandbox' on some new Web sites in an attempt to filter out sites that might be fake or spam. In a Threadwatch.org blog, DougS wrote on Sunday that a Google engineer acknowledged at the Search Engine Strategies conference last week in San Jose, Calif., that Google places some new Web sites, 'regardless of their merit, or lack thereof, in a sort of probationary category' for six months to a year to 'allow time to determine how users react to a new site, who links to it, etc.'..."
"Two recent blogs seem to put rumors to rest about whether Google uses a 'sandbox' on some new Web sites in an attempt to filter out sites that might be fake or spam. In a Threadwatch.org blog, DougS wrote on Sunday that a Google engineer acknowledged at the Search Engine Strategies conference last week in San Jose, Calif., that Google places some new Web sites, 'regardless of their merit, or lack thereof, in a sort of probationary category' for six months to a year to 'allow time to determine how users react to a new site, who links to it, etc.'..."
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