SpamBrain
SpamBrain is Google's AI-based spam detection system.
01What it measures
SpamBrain is Google's AI-based spam detection system. Its most practically relevant aspect is 'scaled content abuse': the mass production of content following the same pattern every time, without genuine editorial added value. A typical example is thousands of location pages that only plug variables (city name, coordinates, measurement data) into a template, with no human editorial quality check.
02Derived from
A machine learning system (ML) that detects spam patterns in content. It delivers a binary spam verdict (spam or not spam), not a quality score.
03How it's measured
SpamBrain is a machine-learning (ML) system against spam. The named aspect 'scaled content abuse' = mass-produced thin content. It delivers a spam verdict, not a substance score. [B field, O system]
04Why it counts here
Only Trust. SpamBrain is pure trust protection: it protects search results from content that tries to deceive the system.
05What to do about it
For sites with many auto-generated pages: pure template pages without editorial added value are a SpamBrain risk. Real added value per page protects against being classified as 'scaled content abuse'. Examples are local peculiarities, historical context and own measurement data. Scaling content production must be flanked by quality assurance.