Spammers will love Google video email alerts

I just read on Search Engine Journal that Google Alerts has added video alerts to their list of alert types. This will undoubtedly increase the number of videos being uploaded with fake titles and keyword-laden word salads for descriptions so certain videos will show up no matter what keywords are being searched for or entered as alert search terms. And it's not just Google videos:

Alerts for new videos related to the user’s specified topic are culled from various video uploading sites such as Google video, YouTube and other video uploading sites.

I won't be taking advantage of these alerts myself, but it would definitely be easy to upload video clips, enter a bunch of keywords for whatever the hot topic of the week is in the description along with your links at the top, of course, and then let Google do the foot-work by sending an alert out to thousands of people for you.

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