The St. Patty’s day spammer strikes
The Saint Patrick’s sub domain spammer adds a few million pages to Google’s web index and users are being sent to adult and pharmacy websites this weekend. How did I find this? I was going to take my kids to the St. Patrick’s day parade in Buffalo and did a search on Google for the following term: “Saint Patrick’s day parade route buffalo” and Google served me the following results:
Google Search Term
When I clicked on the first result or any of the results with the .us at the end, it took me to a page that looked like this:
Spam Webpage
I have been monitoring the amount of spam going into the index and it grows every hour that I monitor it. The spam webpages will differ a bit, but I guess the St. Patties Day leprechauns are laughing as Google is sending these spam pages millions of users which are adding more gold to their pots. By the time Monday rolls around, there will be millions of pages in the index and many Google searchers will find themselves looking at these adult and pharmacy spam pages.