Blog Spam Goes Crazy
from the finding-the-content-needle-in-the-blog-haystack dept
There's been a lot of talk in the blogworld among people who watch blogs or use blog search about how much "blog spam" has been growing in the past few months. It's not entirely clear what the blog spammers get out of it, but they build a bunch of blogs, copying content from other blogs and generally clog up search engines. However, this weekend, something tipped -- and lots of people are noticing that the blog spam problem went from a nuisance to completely out of control. Apparently, some spammers wrote a script to create thousands upon thousands of spam blogs and basically render Google's Blogspot blog hosting platform useless. Yet another example of how any kind of automated system is eventually overcome by those looking to abuse the system leading to an ongoing horse-race between spammers and programmers.
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