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Monday, November 08, 2010
At Google, we continually strive to improve our algorithms to keep search results relevant and
clean. You have been supporting us on this mission by sending spam reports for websites that
violate our
Webmaster Guidelines, using
the
spam report form in
Google Webmaster Tools.
While you might not see changes right away, we take your reports seriously and use them to
fine-tune our algorithms—the feedback is much appreciated and helps us to protect the
integrity of our search results. We also take manual action on many of these spam reports. A
recent blog post covers more information on
how to identify webspam.
For those of you who regularly report spam, or would like to do so, we've now published a
Chrome extension for reporting spam
that makes the process more convenient and simple. The extension adds "Report spam" links to
search results and your Web History, taking you directly to the spam report form and
autocompleting some form fields for you. With this extension, Google's spam report form is always
just one click away.
a browser button to report the currently viewed page
an option to retrieve recent Google searches from your Chrome history
an option to retrieve recently visited URLs from your Chrome history
As before, you need to be logged into your Google Account to report spam. You can find a more
detailed walkthrough of the use cases and features in this
presentation
and on the
Chrome Extensions Gallery page, where you can also provide feedback and
suggestions. We hope that you find this extension useful and that you continue to help us fight
spam.
The extension is available in 16 languages. If your Chrome browser is set to a language supported
by the extension, it will automatically use the localized version, otherwise defaulting to
English.
Posted by Manuel Holtz, Support Engineer, Search Quality team
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