[Search-l] Short interview with Jeremie Miller

[John McCormac]

Fred Benenson wrote:
> 
>     Well it should be interesting to see. How exactly can a bunch of
>     enthusiasts monitor for abuse? 
> 
> 
> This, of all the questions, is least worrying to me about Wikiasearch. 
> Wikipedia, one of the most highly trafficked websites, and probably the 
> most likely to be abused of all the highly trafficked websites, manages 
> to handle this problem pretty well. Jimmy will tell you that vanity spam 
> / clueless users are the biggest offenders, not so much automated abuse 
> bots. If a system is open enough and has enough of a dedicated user 
> base, all abuses are shallow.

Fred,
This might work for a community site such as Wikipedia or a bulletin 
board but a site that provides raw dumps of segments of the web will be 
abused by MFA operators and others.

The monitoring of search indices for spam is something that is done by 
the search engine company itself. It does provide a feedback url where 
users can help. But the systems are highly automated. How will the 
community detect the spam on search engines and link it back to someone 
from the community?

The number of search engine developers in any country is going to be a 
small figure anyway so that would limit the size of the community. The 
problem is that once the repackaged content has been taken and reused by 
an MFA, the damage is done.

Regards...jmcc
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