Mark Cuban announced that the number of splogs on BlogSpot has gotten so bad that IceRocket will temporarily stop indexing BlogSpot blogs until they can get a reasonable filter in place. He warned about this in an earlier post.
He says:
So google, at least for the time being, we shut out adding new blogspot posts to our index until we clean all the bullshit you dumped on us out of our indexes. We will turn them on once we update our filters to resolve this fine mess you got us into , which hopefully will be tomorrow
Google is catching a lot of flack for this from some high profile sources this weekend. They need to do something pretty quickly to get things under control, or their reputation is going to be seriously damaged.
Lets see some action, Google!
on October 17th, 2005 at 9:57 am
I think this incident is something that was necessary to get Google going again. They seem to have forgotten about the splog problem. Maybe what they decided at the Second Web Spam Summit was to just ignore it and hope it goes away.
on October 17th, 2005 at 11:24 am
You’re right, Google hasn’t done much about this. Lets hope this weekends activity gives Google a kick in the ass and gets them moving on this.