Wordpress Banned by Google for Spamming

I found this quite shocking news - an open source application with such sneaking techniques. To summarize: Wordpress has been hosting 168.000 (168 thousand) articles on their website specifically designed to game the Google Adwords program, using high-cost advertising keywords like asbestos, mesothelioma, insurance, debt consolidation, diabetes and mortgages.

Wordpress Banned by Google for Spamming - The Real Nick W writes "Wordpress, an incredibly popular Open Source Blogging system was found to be spamming google by inserting hidden links to junk content on high paying Adsense keywords such as mesothelioma and debt consolidation. Following Threadwatch picking up the story an anonymous Google rep appeared in the original thread admonishing bloggers not to use sneaky tactics to rank highly for "duplicate content" such as the 100,000 hidden articles on the Wordpress site. The articles have now dissapeared from Google and it remains to be seen whether Google will ban Wordpress outright as they tend to do when SEO's and web dev's pull these kinds of stunts." [Slashdot]