Thought he very briefly touched upon what the team does, it is well deserved recognition for the team outside of Google.

"There is a whole team that concentrates on fighting webspam and other types of abuse. That team works on variety of issues from hidden text to off-topic pages stuffed with gibberish keywords, plus many other schemes that people use in an attempt to rank higher in our search results. The team spots new spam trends and works to counter those trends in scalable ways; like all other teams, they do it internationally. The webspam group works closely with the Google Webmaster Central team, so they can share insights with everyone and also listen to site owners."

This introduction answers a heap of questions put forward by webmasters during every Search Engine related conferences. Opening up to webmasters is the right thing to do, it’s never too late.

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