Jalaj P. Jha Technical & Miscellaneous Ramblings

Google Hot Trends Indexing to Cool Down

Google Hot Trends that started somewhere in 2007, 15th May to be precise, has been inspiration to a large number of blogs and sites who created content taking hot keywords from the ones listed in it. While some sites produced remarkable content from it, many took to create brainless content mashing up the keywords and nothing else. Some even took to replicate the Hot Trends site when they could not think of ideas.

Google index is full of pages that are nothing but the copy of the contents of Google Hot Trends site (some are owned by Google itself). Here is a glimpse

• m.blogger.com/trends/hottrends
• pro.blogger.com/trends/hottrends
• www.freesc.com/trends/hottrends
• m.googlearth.de/trends/hottrends
• www.rechargeit.org/trends/hottrends
• www.ggoogle.com/trends/hottrends
• www.blogger.ae/trends/hottrends
• pro1.blogger.com/trends/hottrends
• www.gppglr.com/trends/hottrends
• www.gmail.fr/trends/hottrends
• www.heima021.com/trends/hottrends
• www.janinaordmann.com/trends/hottrends
• m.googlearth.de/trends/hottrends
• www.nihilisme.ca/trends/hottrends
• www.ngauthier.com/trends/hottrends
• www.googleanalytics.ru/trends/hottrends
• www.sharesigns.com/trends/hottrends
• www.ciecet.net/trends/hottrends
• wireless.blogger.com/trends/hottrends
• pro2.blogger.com/trends/hottrends

While intentions of other site owners behind replication of pages can be understood, that is getting traffic, it’s beyond imagination that why would Google want to replicate its own data that too with different subdomains of same domain as m.blogger.com, pro.blogger.com, pro1.blogger.com, pro2.blogger.com and wireless.blogger.com

Anyways, Google now seem to have decided to remove these pages from index and, to effect it, have included exclusion rules in its robots.txt. This change seem to have been done on 2nd of July. You must be wondering that this step may stop Google owned sites to get indexed but what about other sites which are not under Google’s control? Well they will succeed in that too, as the sites replicating the Google Hot Trends page are replicating the robots.txt too

Let’s see how much time it takes to get all these pages removed from the index.

Here is the rest the list.

• www.gmail.fr/trends/hottrends
• 64.233.189.100/trends/hottrends
• www.dancrone.com/trends/hottrends
• www.ciecet.net/trends/hottrends
• www.worx.biz/trends/hottrends
• www.非主流服装.com/trends/hottrends
• www.familiekoret.com/trends/hottrends
• www.387groep.nl/trends/hottrends
• www.ggoogle.com/trends/hottrends
• tonder.hveruge.dk/trends/hottrends
• www.antesoft.com/trends/hottrends
• www.googlemaps.it/trends/hottrends
• www.algianviaggi.com/trends/hottrends
• googleimageads.com/trends/hottrends
• bassboutique.com/trends/hottrends
• 64.233.179.104/trends/hottrends
• 72.14.221.104/trends/hottrends
• www.blogger.se/trends/hottrends
• images.wwwgoogle.de/trends/hottrends
• www.nihilisme.ca/trends/hottrends
• tonder.hveruge.dk/trends/hottrends
• www.rechargeit.org/trends/hottrends
• www.bsp-zt.at/trends/hottrends

and on… and on…