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Generic Toolbar Indexing Debunk Post

published @ September 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Sometimes people think that the Google Toolbar led to Google indexing a page. Here’s a recent such story, for example, which speculates how urls with the substring “mms2legacy” got indexed. Here’s where I started to disagree:
The reason for this [supposedly unlisted urls getting crawled --Matt], explained Ken Simpson, CEO of anti-spam company MailChannels, is [...]

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Generic Malware Debunking Post

published @ September 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Yup, I’m about to do another blog post where someone says that a website is clean but it doesn’t look like it to us. I did a very similar post in January 2007, and in that post I said
I’ve checked out a quite a few “we don’t have any malware” reports at this point, [...]

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