Google develop Intent-O-Meter (BETA)

Last year Google made a major breakthrough when they discovered that spammers fool the search engines by doing things to their sites that other sites also do.

The shocking implication of this is that the only way to seperate different types of optimisation is by testing intent. Spammers have long been confident that the search engines will not be able to do this successfully.

Search Engines have been working hard to resolve this however, since its vitally important that spammy sites can be removed from the SERPs without removing innocent sites. Well, without removing too many innocent sites. OK, without removing too many sites which the average web surfer will notice are missing.

However, yesterday Matt Cutts accidentally gave away in his blog that Google feel they are close to solving the problem

A natural question is: what is Google’s current approach to link buying? Of course our link-weighting algorithms are the first line of defense, but it’s difficult to catch every problem case in adversarial information retrieval, so we also look for problems and leaks in different semi-automatic ways......I wouldn’t be surprised if search engines begin to take stronger action against link buying in the near future.

GHN was immediately on the case, and our undercover reporters have come up with the goods.

We can exclusively reveal that Google have been testing the Intent-O-Meter (Beta).

We have obtained pictures of some of the early tests on volunteer White Hat webmasters.

Here we can see a Google Engineer pointing out the cold dark core of a spammers brain from a later test, at a Google Training Session.

While this image shows the onset of incipient 'dark intent' in the right cortex.

GHN believes this technology is ALREADY being tested by Google, with mysterious dissapearances from the index and suspicious blogs being amongst the first casualties.

GHN asked BlackHats from a notoriously evil den of self-outed spammers what they felt and one of them mentioned that they would simply get around this by sending someone wearing a cloak to take their brain scan for them (it was something like that, I don't really understand that evil type of stuff). However news from the GooglePlex is that this won't work as, after 15 people claiming to be a Mr D Heil registered for the first volunteer session, Google arranged a recriprocal data exchange with the Department of Homeland Security and now have everyones iris scans and hat measurements on file. Who said reciprocal agreements were bad?

Of course, Google are at pains to point out that webmasters can opt out of the brain scans by running like mad in the opposite direction or going to live in France. What effect this will have on sites registered to you is unknown.