Here's a note that I sent to Google through their support request page. I'm suggesting a new feature, which I'm surprised they haven't implemented yet.

Google Alerts are great.

Your link for reporting spam search results at:

http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html

... is great.

Now... put them together. Add a link for each search result in the Google Alert e-mail messages that would prepopulate a web page for submitting a spam report. It would be a quick, efficient way to get spam blogs and other spam sites out of the search index almost as soon as they are added.

Spam blogs are most likely set up using automated tools, all in a name of getting ad revenue or for spreading malicious software to unsuspecting computer users (who could have their computers taken over to be used again to create more spam blogs). They can also boost a web site's search ranking to have it appear higher in the search results list. Since many people only look at the first few pages of an Internet search, this can make a big difference, especially if you're selling something.

Google Alerts can be setup by anyone, for free. Google will send you an e-mail when content based on your search terms is added to the Google search index. Letting people report spam directly from the alert e-mail messages would be a quick solution to reducing some of the spam blogs. I'm starting to get occassional alerts regarding sites that seem to be copying content from my own website.

I'll report back if anything comes out of my suggestion.