Thats it im angry enough with this site to actually write a blogpost about it.
Im sure if you are technical individual you have come accross this god awful site countless times. Over and over again you type in a query your problem into google, something like “php upload The connection was reset” a perfectly legitimate question and one that probably has been answered on a forum before. You then go through the google results and more often than not you come accross something like this:
You read the title thinking, oh this sounds promising, may be the same problem im having. You click it and then are presented with this:
Its at this moment you start to get that little suspicious sensation that you have been on this site before and have ended up being totally pissed off but any remember why. Anyways, you read the text, great, sounds like it is similar to my problem, so what were the suggestions of how to fix it? You scroll down imagining the answer to be down a little..
Umm.. hmm this doesnt look like its a forum post reply.. looks like a whole nother big list of problems, perhaps I should scroll down a little more…
Ahh these look like the responses to my question… oh wait a min they arent… hmmm so what are these? they look like more questions. So whats going on here then? There seems to be no responses to the original question, no link to the original post, nothing, so what is the point in this site and why does it rank in the top 10 of many many google search queries?
Well it seems like all it does is spam the internet with totally useless pages that google seems to rank highly, basically its SPAM and bloody anoying spam at that.
I urge everyone who has come accross this site and come to the same conclusion to report this as spam to google using the the following link:
http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html
Lets get this god-awful pointless bag-o-crap off the net once and for all!
20 Responses to Bigresource.com IS SPAM
Jef November 17, 2009
I will fill out the form. That site is absolute shit and only gets in the way!
admin November 18, 2009
Nice one, it doesnt add any value to the internet, lets get rid of it!
Sohail Ahmed November 24, 2009
Oh! They are so clever!
Nikolai February 4, 2010
I hate that site. It has to go.
cool March 11, 2010
you should ask yourself why it is still there… maybe because Google has adsense on it, some of the makers are friends of friends and such;)
Some sites are more equal than others
nerdabilly March 25, 2010
If you click the yellow "View Complete Forum Thread With Replies" button, it will take you to the forum (where you will find your answer), except it sticks a hideous BigResource banner on the top frame. i HATE this site. Thank you for posting your frustrations, I 100% agree. They are stealing search results from the good forum sites and using it to get ad views. Sleazy as hell.
mikecann March 25, 2010
I cant believe its still going TBH it should of been blasted by now!
nerdabilly March 26, 2010
My guess is that they're flying just below Google's radar. What they're doing is bad, but I think it's probably just barely within the terms-of-use, so there's no violation that would warrant getting removed.
Rob April 3, 2010
I'm with you Mike.
I've spent all day trying to sort out problems and keep inadvertently clicking on links to this site. 'Oh yeah', I think, 'a solution to my problem' and then, bang, a gigantic popup asking me to fill in some stupid quiz to view the solution. F@#$ing frustrating.
Avoid 'em like the plague.
mikecann April 23, 2010
Well it would appear that things are changing, I just repeated my original search "php upload The connection was reset" and there was no BigResource link in sight!
So I *hope* that Google has now put this god awful mess to bed
@bunnyhero April 29, 2010
alas, i'm getting a tonne of bigresource.com results when searching on various flash-related topics. they're still clouding up search results
i've reported the spam to google.
thanks for blogging about this.
k hemm October 28, 2010
First off let me say I hate bigresource with a passion. All they do is spam google's index. The fact that google would put them often times in the top 5 suggests that google has no freaking clue how to serve good results so they rely on bigresource to sort it out all for them.
However, let me just say that there is a yellow button "View Complete Forum Thread With Replies" that takes you to the original thread.
The fact that you EVENTUALLY end up where you want to be, sometimes maybe — still sucks. Because often times you search for a 2 part issue and the question up above has one of the elements you need to know about, and some question down below covers a 2nd element of what you need to know — and neither one of them fit the solution of what you wanted to know individually, but because bigresource jerkoffs pasted all that junk onto one page, google sends you there.
It is just a trashy site and it needs to die.
Phishman December 8, 2010
BigResource is the epitomy of a bad site. No content, just spam.
Simon February 14, 2011
Is it just me or have they finally gotten rid of this spam site from most of their searches? Praise Google!
mikecann February 14, 2011
Yep looks like they may have done. Theres been alot of pressure on google recently to clean itself up (read techcrunch) may have been something to do with that.
Robin March 10, 2011
Still piles of Big Resource spam results in Google for me. It's got to be the most annoying site in the world for web developers who rely on blogs, forums and tutorial sites for reference and help in their work. It's forever coming up in the SERPs and wasting my clicks. Google please sort your algorithm out to BANISH BIG RESOURCE!!
Roger March 18, 2011
Now every use can block this site from their personalized search results.
Me September 13, 2011
Still come up in searches. Maybe Google own “BugResource”
Anonymous September 13, 2011
Yep, noticed it still comes up, and still frustrates the hell out of me