<![CDATA[[SecurityRatty] tag: firesearch]]> http://securityratty.com/tag/firesearch Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:53:13 +0000 iRatty Engine http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Massive Blackhat SEO Targeting Blogspot]]> http://securityratty.com/article/b67feb41b6dee87ceb22c52aa277b424 http://securityratty.com/article/b67feb41b6dee87ceb22c52aa277b424 With Blogspot's fancy pagerank and with Google's recent introduction of real-time content indexing of blogs using the service, the interest of blackhat SEO-ers into the efficient registration and posting of junk content with the idea to monetize the traffic that will come from the process, seems to continue evolving as a process. In this specific case, we have firesearch.sc (64.111.196.120; 64.111.197.88) a blackhat SEO links farm that's visualized in the attached screenshot, and several thousands of automatically registered blogspot accounts directly feeding the searching queries that led to visiting them into firesearch.sc. What's also worth mentioning about this campaign is that the firesearch.sc's javascript search field appears at the top of every blog, whereas the blog's content itself consists of outgoing links to nearly fifty other such automatically registered blogs, again redirecting the search queries to firesearch.sc, whereas advertisements get served from 64.111.196.117/c.php

Sample blogs :

tilas--paralyze--video.blogspot.com
parentdirectoryofnokia19942.blogspot.com
imelodyalesana.blogspot.com
iberryblack8320.blogspot.com
ku990downloadwallpaper.blogspot.com
blackberrypearl8100fre62265.blogspot.com
motorolarazrv3amdriver90079.blogspot.com
downloadcredmakerforf64090.blogspot.com
smsmarathi.blogspot.com
pradaphonethemes.blogspot.com

With a basic sample of ten such blogs, the entire operation could be tracked down and removed from Google's index. And while firesearch.sc is pitching itself as a "search engine that you can trust", it looks like it's not generating revenues for the people behind the operation, but also, acts as a keyword popularity blackhole.

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