[LINK] Email Obfuscation Helps Spammers: Google returns 27 million results for "* at * dot com"

[Kim Holburn]

On 2007/Jun/17, at 1:44 PM, Rick Welykochy wrote:

> Kim Holburn wrote:
>
>> The string "at*dot*au" gets 19,400,000 hits.
>
> I get 405,000 hits. The URL is:
> http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=at*dot*au&btnG=Search&meta=

at*dot*au
Results 1 - 10 of about 396,000 for at*dot*au. (0.14 seconds)

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22at*dot*au%22
"at*dot*au"
Results 1 - 50 of about 394,000 English pages for "at*dot*au". (0.26  
seconds)
which I calculate is 19,700,000 hits


> Am I doing something wrong?
>
> cheers
> rickw
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