The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway - ALEXSKRA

A weird thing is going on with Google search in Norway right now. Spammers are taking over.

Recently I’ve started seeing a lot of spam in Google Search in Norwegian. I’m not talking about a bad result here and there that ranks terrible. No, I’m talking about a large-scale spam operation that I’ve noticed more and more in recent days. It’s so bad that I’m convinced that this one spam domain is getting a large cut of all Google Search traffic in Norway. I can search for basically anything and find it in the first few pages with a very high probability. The domain they use right now is a danish one, havfruen4220.dk. (“Havfruen”, meaning &#

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