Google Blogoscoped did a quick survey of 50 Blogspot blogs and found that 60% of them were splogs.
This is an unacceptable level of splog. I’m hoping the new awareness of splogs and the new reporting facilities will help the situation a little.
Google Blogoscoped did a quick survey of 50 Blogspot blogs and found that 60% of them were splogs.
This is an unacceptable level of splog. I’m hoping the new awareness of splogs and the new reporting facilities will help the situation a little.
Spam Chonging has a new post that has some good advice for new spam fighters. I have taken some of this advice and applied it to my site.
Thanks Joe!
Spam Chonging is a blog dedicating “to retaliate against spammers of wikis and blogs”. They have been talking about splogs a lot recently.
James Kew is reporting success in using Blogger’s “Flag” button.
This is a promising sign.
Bob Wyman, CTO and co-founder of PubSub.com, blog search engine, has posted a blog entry talking a little about his company’s efforts to fight splog.
He says:
I strongly believe that it is in the best interest of our users to filter this stuff out. It should also be noted that we generally will not identify the methods that we use to find these things and we won’t announce (except on rare occasions like this one) which feeds we’re filtering out. If we discuss our identification methods, people will simply learn how to work around those methods. If we identify which feeds we’re eliminating, we’ll be revealing valuable information about our methods.
Doc Searls has a good article about sploggers. His main suggestion is that all the companies fighting splog (Yahoo, Google, Technorati, etc) joing forces to defeat this.
Some very good news from The Blog Herald. They have posted an email they got from a spam blog tool creator who appears to be very afraid of the crackdown on spam blogs. Hopefully the tide is turning.
A new splog fighting blog has been started. It looks the blog is going to be listing splogs that have been reported. It’s kicking ass and taking names.
Good Job!
We are proud to present FightSplog.com.
FightSplog.com is a resource to fight spam blogs, or ’splogs’ as they have come to be known. This will be a resource center for dealing with the problem of splog. We have
More to come soon.