Kailash Nadh, who created Pingoat, has announced a splog blacklist service SplogSpot. This exposes Pingoat’s blacklist database via an API.
It also features a spam search engine. Type in your keywords and it will return a list of splogs. (All splogs, no blogs!)
There is also a splog reporting tool, very similar to SplogReporter. Should SplogSpot and SplogReporter get together and have one unified interface?
These types of developments are encouraging.
A new splog fighting website AntiSplog.net, has been launched.
According to the site
AntiSplog is a Spam blogs database which is based on an automated testing process. AntiSplog try to analyze blog content and detect different type of blogs spams. The information are recorded in database to be accessible online via a simple interface actually, that we’ll extend later with more functionalities.
You can submit the URL of a blog, and it determines whether or not it is slog. This is a promising new addition to the splog fighting toolkit.
Any domain which has inaccurate or fake data can be reported to the InterNIC Whois Data Problem Report System.
Sploggers often use fake information in their domain registration in order to be anonymous.
Reporting violations will put them under investigation by their registrars and help expose them.
Thanks to Matt Cutts for writing about this.
Spam Chonging is a blog dedicating “to retaliate against spammers of wikis and blogs”. They have been talking about splogs a lot recently.
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!