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by dhimes 5640 days ago
Ah, I see what you mean. These link farms are getting clever, and using content "real" enough to pass the automated sniff test.
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Part is also what counts as spam. Google doesn't count a lot of index-type pages as spam, so if you search for a conjunction of a few programming terms, [scala foo bar baz], you often get a page that indexes blogs on a topic, in this case Scala. The post titles on that page will use all of your search terms, but often in different post titles, effectively erasing the conjunction operator in your query.