Google dumps all 11+ million .co.cc sites from its results, mostly spam and phish !!!

[INDRANIL]

Google has removed over 11 million .co.cc websites from its search engine results pages on the basis that most of them are far too "spammy".

The .co.cc space is not an officially authorised second-level domain like .co.uk or .com.au. Rather, it's offered independently by a Korean company (http://co.cc/) that just happens to own the domain name .co.cc.

Google classes the firm as a "freehost", and has exercised its right to block the whole domain "if we see a very large fraction of sites on a specific freehost are spammy or low-quality", according to Matt Cutts, head of Google's web spam team.

The company said in a recent blog post: "To help protect users we recently modified those [malware-scanning] systems to identify bulk subdomain services which are being abused. In some severe cases our systems may now flag the whole bulk domain."

So no need to worry Google is doing the good. Have a nice day .

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[Neo]

and now .co.cc owner has told google to ban facebook too then

[Raymond]

That's a good move by Google.
I remembered that there were a couple of *.co.cc sites that copied my articles without permission and it wasn't easy getting them removed.

[sm1]

Clearcloud dns blocks all co.cc domains. Now google has removed them from search results

[sujay]

Good move by Google.....