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The first reports of the Samoan earthquake hit my inbox on Sep 29th at about 4pm EST. By about 7pm EST, the next day, we started noticing hits on rogue spyware from google queries. When we looked, we found they had five or six of the top ten results on the Google search results page, well above even places like CNN and The Guardian on queries like “Samoan Tsunami”. In other words, in not much more than 24 hours, they raised the profile of minor sites that they’d hacked to be higher than established, legitimate sites. That’s _really impressive_ SEO. Google removes them from their indexes as soon as they notice, but these do this every time there’s a big news event. I’ve p*ssed off Facebook this week, so I might as well poke at Google.
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