Keep in mind after we reported that Google Teams appears to have seen a visibility enhance in Google Search, which resulted in numerous spammy and typically harmful info exhibiting up in Google’s search outcomes. Bleeping Laptop now studies that Google is ending assist for Usenet teams on Google Teams to battle spam.
“Google has formally introduced it is ceasing assist for Usenet teams on its Google Teams platform, a transfer partly attributed to the platform’s rising wrestle with spam content material. The upcoming modifications will take impact from February 22, 2024, after which customers can not publish, subscribe, or view new Usenet content material by means of Google Teams,” the report wrote.
Do you assume it’s associated to the studies from the search group about Google Teams content material spamming up the Google Search outcomes?
Glenn Gabe posted about this on X yesterday and wrote, “Following the Google Teams spam drawback? Fascinating growth -> Google Teams is ending assist for Usenet to fight spam.”
The Google assist doc writes, “Beginning on February 22, 2024, you possibly can not use Google Teams (at teams.google.com) to publish content material to Usenet teams, subscribe to Usenet teams, or view new Usenet content material. You may proceed to view and seek for historic Usenet content material posted earlier than February 22, 2024 on Google Teams.”
Google added, “Over the past a number of years, respectable exercise in text-based Usenet teams has declined considerably as a result of customers have moved to extra trendy applied sciences and codecs corresponding to social media and web-based boards. A lot of the content material being disseminated by way of Usenet at the moment is binary (non-text) file sharing, which Google Teams doesn’t assist, in addition to spam.”
It does make you surprise if this may resolve a few of these spammy points inside Google Search?
Right here is extra on this situation:
Extra concerning the Google Teams drop. Checking a number of the queries that dropped, and the content material that was rating, I am seeing many messages deleted and a few of these urls deindexed. So perhaps a mixture of tweaking the “hidden gems” algo + modifications on the positioning itself. Very attention-grabbing. pic.twitter.com/lXeb671Fwv
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) December 13, 2023
Following the Google Teams spam drawback? Fascinating growth -> Google Teams is ending assist for Usenet to fight spam
“A lot of the content material being disseminated by way of Usenet at the moment is binary (non-text) file sharing, which Google Teams doesn’t assist, in addition to spam.”… pic.twitter.com/mtfmHZmUDN
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) January 2, 2024
Discussion board dialogue at X.
