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Spam is any unsolicited email you receive. People who send out commercial email are required to give you a way to "opt out," or unsubscribe. | Spam is any unsolicited email you receive. People who send out commercial email are required to give you a way to "opt out," or unsubscribe. | ||
| − | A sender of commercial emails who doesn't offer a way to remove your address from its list | + | A sender of commercial emails who doesn't offer a way to remove your address from its list [http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/spam/ can be reported] to the [[FTC.gov|Federal Trade Commission]]. |
People also use the term '''spam''' to describe any of the following: | People also use the term '''spam''' to describe any of the following: | ||
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* Web pages that appear high in search results but aren't really useful or pertinent to the search you've just made. Google [[Learn/Google%27s-Farmer-Update:-What-You-Need-To-Know|changed its algorithm]] in early 2011 to address this problem. | * Web pages that appear high in search results but aren't really useful or pertinent to the search you've just made. Google [[Learn/Google%27s-Farmer-Update:-What-You-Need-To-Know|changed its algorithm]] in early 2011 to address this problem. | ||
| − | * Comments on blog posts or news articles that offer no insight, new information or even real commentary, and were made solely to post a link to the commenter's website. | + | * Comments on blog posts or news articles that offer no insight, new information or even real commentary, and were made solely to post a link to the commenter's website. |
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