Google Draws Fire Over Blogspot Spam Blogs

[Mark]

Google Draws Fire Over Blogspot Spam Blogs

http://news.netcraft.com/
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/10/17/google_draws_fire_over_blogspot_spam_blogs.html

About 39,000 fake blogs have been created on the web in the past two weeks, according to an analysis by Technorati, or about 4.6 percent of the 805,000 new weblogs created in that period. FightSplog, which has been monitoring new blogs at Blogspot, recently documented 2,763 porn splogs created by a single "splogger." Blogspot-based spam blogs recently began featuring names of prominent bloggers in posts, boosting the splogs' visibility in searches at web-based RSS aggregators like Feedster, PubSub and Bloglines.

Oct 17, 2005

:o Doesn't really surprise me at all .....

 

[deu12000]

Doesn't surprise me either. A lot of people know one of the fastest way into a search engine is opening a blog and linking to your new website/domain. Especially google owned blog hosting, it's an almost guaranteed indexing within 24 hours.

 

[Epic]

Google owns blogspot?

Somehow I never realized that lol

 

[wasistdas]

All new tech can easily be adopted by spammers. Until they feel how bad it is spammers will remain to do their unfair job.

 

[domainprince]

Google owns blogspot?

Somehow I never realized that lol

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