How do you report spam in Google Products?
It happens regularly. Someone finds out how easy it is to get listed in Google product search, they submit an affiliate feed or site, list products with misleading prices, or just generally spam for popular product types. There’s got to be a way to kill those listings, right?
Absolutely. They even make it easy. Just go to base.google.com, search for the product, find the listing and click the “Report Listing” link.
You might have to do a pretty generic search, because once the attributes get triggered at the top of the page (keywords, product type, price, stores, brand, condition, mpn, tax percent, payment notes, price type, pickup, etc.) the link doesn’t show up any more. The image below shows the attributes I’m talking about.
Reporting spam in base isn’t hard, but doing a search that doesn’t get attributes can be tricky. I usually have to go back to the homepage and do a fresh search once they’ve been triggered. Best of luck, and report some spam.
Comment by Jim | October 21st, 2007
Brian,
I also use the RSS feature to quickly spot spammers as they enter the index:
http://base.google.com/base/search?nd=1&showrefine=&q=makita+drill&scoring=r&us=0&output=rss&ie=utf8
Happy Hunting!
Comment by Boris | October 26th, 2007
I am glad I’m to busy to bother, but I am glad that someone is paying attention.
Comment by Thomas Pletsers | November 29th, 2007
I have reported listings aswel , but it takes a long time before Google takes care of it and a week later they are back up doing the same thing.