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Friday, 14th July 2006

Search Brief's: G's NOODP Tag; Judge Dismisses Lawsuit against Google; Microsoft Fights Search Spam

+ Google Adds Supports For NOODP Tag To Opt Out Of ODP Titles (via SEW Blog)
Shows the value of DMOZ/ODP continuing to decline and also illustrates why non-commercial directories can be so useful and important.

+ Judge dismisses suit over Google ranking (via News.com)
NOTE: We've posted the amended complaint in this case from April 2006 along with today's ruling.
++ Amended complaint Filed April 14, 2006
++ July 13, 2006 Ruling by U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel

+ Microsoft Research Automates Hunt for Search Engine Spam (via e-Week)

The Redmond, Wash., software giant's Cybersecurity and Systems Management Research Group has taken the wraps off Strider Search Defender, an experimental project that automates the discovery of search spammers through non-content analysis.

, an experimental project that automates the discovery of search spammers through non-content analysis.We're not so sure if the "wraps" on this project weren't taken off months ago. Back in April we blogged about the project and also linked (.DOC file) to the original research paper that was presented at a conference.

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