---
title: "Google Search Overwhelmed by Massive Spam Attack"
date: 2025-06-25
published: 2024-01-24
author: "banand"
lang: en
translations:
  en-ca: "https://www.dacgroup.com/en-ca/insights/local-search-news/google-search-overwhelmed-by-massive-spam-attack-3.md"
---

# Google Search Overwhelmed by Massive Spam Attack

Google struggled to contain a massive spam attack that took place over the last two weeks of December. Many spam domains ranked for hundreds of thousands of keywords each, an indication that the scale of the attack easily reached into the millions of keyword phrases.

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