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Google Bayesian Spam Filtering Problem
posted by scubacuda on Friday November 28, @12:19AM
from the butterfly-effect dept.
News Seth hypothesizes that Google's "Bayesian spam filtering" algorithm has affected long time high ranking sites. That is, it gives high-spam-scoring results to simple searches that have spam-related keywords.

(Those curious about how Google works should check out Anatomy of a Search Engine and Secrets of Getting Web Traffic)

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