March 31, 2005
Wordpress Caught Spamming Google
It's a sad day as Wordpress has been caught spamming the Google search engine. From what I hear Wordpress is a fine piece of open source software and a great example of common community for a good cause. However Waxy revealed Wordpress let a search engine spam company host thousands of articles on their server resulting in major Google Adsense profits. Now Google in response deleted Wordpress from their search engine results. Nasty stuff.Wordpress.org now has a pagerank of 0/10, which means they've been effectively removed from Google search results (for now). The article results have all been removed from Yahoo, as well.
Fortunately, someone removed all of the Hot Nacho articles from the Wordpress.org site completely. It looks like the entire /articles directory was removed, so I'm sure Google will be adding Wordpress.org back to its index soon. Does anyone know if they were removed by someone at Wordpress or by someone at Hot Nacho? If you know, please leave me an e-mail.
