A new study shows that 75% of pings are generated from splogs. The report analysis pings from weblogs.com over a four week period.
we used our work on splog detection to detect splogs (and hence spings) among the english blogs. Our detection mechanism is close to 90% accurate. As shown in the charts below pings from blogs average around 8K per hour and those from splogs average around 25K.
This is the most comprehensive study of splogs I have seen, and the results are not that surprising to me. This shows that splogs are clearly out of control.
They are also publishing live statistics of blog languages and blogs vs. splogs at http://memeta.umbc.edu/
Found via: The Blog Herald