Google has unveiled new information about its anti-spam initiatives, disclosing that it has detected and removed more than 80% of hacked sites from search results.
The tech giant intends to persist in its endeavors by collaborating directly with popular content management systems to combat spam in forums and comment sections.
“Last year, we focused a great deal of effort on reducing the impact on users from hacked websites, and were able to detect and remove more than 80 percent of compromised sites from search results. We’re also working closely with many providers of popular content management systems like WordPress and Joomla to help them fight spammers that abuse forums and comment sections.”
Here are some other notable statistics from Google’s recent announcement for 2017:
– Google conducted over 250 webmaster meetups and office hours worldwide, reaching more than 220,000 website owners.
– The company sent over 45 million notifications to registered website owners through Search Console, alerting them to potential issues that could impact their search appearance.
– Google dispatched 6 million manual action messages to webmasters about practices violating its guidelines, including information on how to address these issues.
– The company acted on nearly 90,000 user reports of search spam.
Google will continue its commitment to safeguarding both searchers and site owners from spam. It also encourages users to contribute by reporting search-related issues, which can be done by clicking the “Send feedback” link at the bottom of the search results page.
