# Report spam on google search

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-spam-on-google-search/683021>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 6, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-spam-on-google-search/683021 "2014-03-06T16:29:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![am77494](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-spam-on-google-search/683021/1 "2014-03-06T16:29:27Z")

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While doing google searches on some topics, some webpages come up that are best classified as spam, IMO. They have made up of keywords and just point to other webpages.

Is there a way to report them as spam to google ? the idea here is to filter out these results in future searches.

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-spam-on-google-search/683021/2 "2014-03-06T16:40:12Z")

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Yep! [Report Spam, Malware, or Paid Links | Google Search Central &nbsp;|&nbsp; Documentation &nbsp;|&nbsp; Google for Developers](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93713?hl=en)

My friend used to work for the web spam department. It’s a real thing.

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**Author:** ![urban1a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47c2d/32.png) [@urban1a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1a)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-spam-on-google-search/683021/3 "2014-03-07T02:41:55Z")

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Matt Cutts is the person at Google responsible for that. He’ll get right on it (once he is informed about it).

Bob