comments from google news and reviews – what are they

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  timethief · Member · May 30, 2006 at 4:52 am

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  cornell · Member · May 30, 2006 at 1:18 pm

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  I’m obviously not important enough to get these, got an example?

  At a guess I would say they’re Spam but can’t be sure.

  Collin

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  serbianmess · Member · May 31, 2006 at 4:59 am

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  This is what it looks like:

  New trackback on your post #6 “Priština Negotiation Party”
  Website: (IP: 208.99.207.139 , tor.neg9.org)
  URI : http://www.google.ru
  Excerpt:
  <strong>Google…</strong>
  Google news and reviews…
  You can see all trackbacks on this post here:

  Priština Negotiation Party

  I’ve also got no idea what it is, and would love to know.
  http://tor.neg9.org/ isn’t a good clue, at least for me :)

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  cornell · Member · May 31, 2006 at 10:01 am

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  Thanks for that. Definitely looks like spam to me!

  Google.ru does resolve to *a* google, whether it’s an official one or not I don’t know.

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  timethief · Member · May 31, 2006 at 3:42 pm

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  OOPS!:O I’m sorry about that folks. I obviously left a title on the forum but no contents in the box :O. [outer limits theme plays in background]. Anyway I sent in feedback and received aresponse – these “google comments and review thingees” are spam.

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  cornell · Member · May 31, 2006 at 4:00 pm

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  Thanks for the confirmation TT! :)

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  drmike · Member · May 31, 2006 at 4:00 pm

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  208.99.207.139 is 100% *NOT* a Google IP.

  Unless they’re leasing $75 a month servers form some company called Swift which is where the IP points to.

  This threads says its spam. I tend to agree although I have yet to see one of these.

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  timethief · Member · May 31, 2006 at 4:13 pm

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  I tried to scrounge one out of my deleted email file which is usually full. However, I had a neat freakout before going to bed and jettisoned eveything. Just a second [she goes to check he sent email mailbox]

  Nerts! This is all I found – no copy of the original “google comments and reviews” example which I sent in on feedback.

  timethief wrote:
  > Feedback from ‘timethief’ on http://bloggersblurt.wordpress.com :
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  > Comments from google news and reviews.
  >
  > I have received three of these “comments from google news and reviews”
  > for moderation. They do not seem to have any text. Can you explain to
  > me what these “comments” from google that do not contain any text are
  > and what I should do with them please?

  Hi,
  This is part of a new wave of spam.
  Mark them as spam and remove. Akismet will have started catching them already so they should disappear fast.
  Sorry about that!

  Podz

  Maybe podz kept a copy of the example I sent?

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  drmike · Member · May 31, 2006 at 4:20 pm

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  Just checked but I don’t have any of those in my spam queue nor in my passed through comments that didn’t get caught. I do have 75 caught ones though. I must have lucked out. :)

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  nosysnoop · Member · May 31, 2006 at 10:28 pm

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  I’ve been getting a few ‘Blog Verification’ ones. Then they leave a bunch of numbers as their comment.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 1, 2006 at 12:43 am

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  Thanks for the heads up nosysnoop.

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  drmike · Member · Jun 15, 2006 at 9:52 pm

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  Just got one as well. Coming out of Belgium. Probably a spammer looking for sites. Just make sure it’s marked as spam and move on. :)