{"id":2470,"date":"2012-10-08T14:24:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T21:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ypm.com\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2012-11-02T14:58:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T21:58:42","slug":"us-senate-committee-alerts-google-yahoo-and-bing-to-fake-moving-services-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/creative.ypm.com\/corp\/us-senate-committee-alerts-google-yahoo-and-bing-to-fake-moving-services-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate Committee Alerts Google, Yahoo and Bing To Fake Moving Services Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/creative.ypm.com\/corp\/us-senate-committee-alerts-google-yahoo-and-bing-to-fake-moving-services-scams\/senatelogo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2471\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2471 colorbox-2470\" title=\"senatelogo\" src=\"http:\/\/creative.ypm.com\/corp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/senatelogo-253x300.png\" alt=\"senate logo\" width=\"152\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/creative.ypm.com\/corp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/senatelogo-253x300.png 253w, http:\/\/creative.ypm.com\/corp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/senatelogo.png 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a>Last week Senator Rockefeller, Chairman of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/commerce.senate.gov\/\">U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation<\/a>\u00a0sent a letter to the 3 major search engines (Google, Yahoo and Microsoft) informing them about a study the committee had concluded on moving services scams being perpetrated online across their search engines.<\/p>\n<p>The letters were sent to Matt Cutts, head of WebSpam at Google, Shashi Seth, SVP at Yahoo, and Microsoft&#8217;s President of Online Services, Qi Lu. The letters point out findings from the study that include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many moving services &#8220;brokers&#8221; are &#8220;gaming the system&#8221; in an effort to appear at the top of search results.<\/li>\n<li>Many of these brokers are leveraging paid links in order to achieve these results, a practice that violates Google&#8217;s Webmaster Guidelines.<\/li>\n<li>These companies are creating multiple bogus websites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The letter is not a warning or threat of any kind, though it does softly alert the search engines that these scams are still being perpetrated despite their best efforts (Penguin, Panda).<\/p>\n<p>The letter can be found <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/commerce.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?p=Reports&amp;ContentRecord_id=9c813dab-a774-43e6-8e45-9408b96fbbdb&amp;ContentType_id=6a6fef64-34f1-4348-b965-ec03a1dcadfe&amp;Group_id=a89b0b93-3242-4d2a-82da-5e916a62b6a9\">here<\/a> and the full committee report can be found <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/commerce.senate.gov\/public\/?a=Files.Serve&amp;File_id=e91ce6b0-6262-4cd3-b127-6d29bae0fa52\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Senator Rockefeller, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation\u00a0sent a letter to the 3 major search engines (Google, Yahoo and Microsoft) informing them about a study the committee had concluded on moving services scams being perpetrated online across their search engines. 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