SPLOGS – Interesting Wired Mag article
A little dated (but I’m catching up on back issues) but very interesting info on the threat of spameers to the blogsphere.
I have always wondered why some Google searches seem to regularly turn up hit after hit of useless pages of links….. now I know web spam (splogs and link farms)!
Some quotes from the article:
“Some 56 percent of active English-language blogs are spam, according to a study released in May by Tim Finin, a researcher at the University of Maryland…..”
“A recent survey by Mitesh Vasa, a Virginia-based software engineer and splog researcher, found that in December 2005, Blogger was hosting more than 100,000 sploggers. (Many of these are likely pseudonyms for the same people.)”
“Statistics compiled by Akismet, a system put together by WordPress developer Mullenweg that tries to filter out blog spam, suggest that more than nine out of 10 comments in the blogosphere are spam.”
and you thought you had problems with e-mail spam!
Posted: January 3rd, 2007 under General.
Tags: blogshere, spam, spammers, Wired_magazine