OT: Google Spam

2003-10-01 Thread Les Riess
I recently visited friends in Germany and was introduced to a friend of theirs who is a computer consultant and self-styled expert. During the conversation, I remarked that Google is a pretty good search engine, to which the computer expert replied, Not so good. Too much spam.. Puzzled, I asked

Re: OT: Google Spam

2003-10-01 Thread Krevnik
This guy is 'expert' in name only, and badly reciting something he heard. Google *IS* linked to spam in one way: Spammers use Google to crawl for e-mail addresses. So if you do a search for your e-mail address on Google and it shows up, then spammers have a means of getting your e-mail address

Re: OT: Google Spam

2003-10-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
Les Riess wrote: I recently visited friends in Germany and was introduced to a friend of theirs who is a computer consultant and self-styled expert. During the conversation, I remarked that Google is a pretty good search engine, to which the computer expert replied, Not so good. Too much spam..

Re: OT: Google Spam

2003-10-01 Thread Clark Martin
At 9:49 AM -0500 10/1/03, Les Riess wrote: I recently visited friends in Germany and was introduced to a friend of theirs who is a computer consultant and self-styled expert. During the conversation, I remarked that Google is a pretty good search engine, to which the computer expert replied, Not