Danny Sullivan of Google said that no one was infected by the search spam issue around untitled documents. He said this is a spam issue, not a malware issue and "no one is infected with anything." Sullivan added that the spam team is already on the issue and things are already improving.
I spotted this via a tweet from both Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, on Twitter and also via @bhartzer and we also covered it at Search Engine Land.
You can see the complaints and links to complaints about this both in Hacker News and Reddit. Supposedly, these "untitled" documents were hacked pieces of content that were spam and potentially had malware on them. I cannot replicate any of this now but some of the queries that were impacted, according to the thread were for queries on [name of a file that exists], [GitLab release],[GitLab Community Edition], [check gitlab version], [laser singapore camera], [UCLA laser singapore] , [wordpress transparent images], [LJ corpus], and [present for doctors surgery reddit]. Here are some screenshots of this:
Danny Sullivan of Google said "we're aware and working on it. It's not malware. It's spam, something our systems normally would typically catch, so we're checking on it to improve." He added "it's spam, not malware and we are looking into this." Later saying "our spam team was already on it. It is spam, not malware. No one is infected with anything. I think things are already improving and they'll keep debugging it."
Some developers...
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