Vanity search after the explosive burst onto the political scene?
;o)
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
Of course!
I wanted to see who else called me an idiot. :-)
Louis Gray
· 2 years ago
I want companies like Technorati and Sphere to succeed, and have seen Google's Blog Search get more relevant over time, but I don't often use any of those services at all. The way I find new blogs are through sites like yours and TechMeme or from Steve Rubel, et al. By linking to others and mentioning their work, I discover new sites and add them to my Google Reader list. That one search engine or another is being hit by splogs is frustrating, but blog searching is not yet as ubiquitous as Web searching in my opinion. The Web was born through linking, and continues to be.
paul
· 2 years ago
Edelman now uses Google blog search, I’ve seen it in my logs.
Tony M.
· 2 years ago
Robert,
The sad part is that effectively finding sploggers is an issue in the first place and one, it seems that the search engines either don't want to address or would rather wait for someone else to do it.
The ability for a splogger to churn out hundreds or thousands of splogs is relatively easy.
How about a simple option to ignore MySplogs, I mean MySpace blogs? That alone would dramatically clean up search results.
Stefan Constantinescu
· 2 years ago
Sphere sucks balls
Google blog search a little less
Technorati even less
Bloglines and Blogdigger are my blog search engines of choice. There is practically no spam on them at all.
May C
· 2 years ago
It's impossible to not find splogs on any search. I've found lots of splogs in Bloglines.
If only we could stop them, as well as spam (I can't believe someone would go through the manual effort of reading my blog to manually send me spam with my name and relevant info on a contest I'm holding including what to put in the subject to avoid spam filters. Unbelievable.
Randy Charles Morin
· 2 years ago
I'd like to report blogspot.com. They have thousands of splogs.
Asa Dotzler
· 2 years ago
I watch Firefox pretty closely, aggregating and reading the latest search hits at feedster, google blogsearch, technorati, icerocket, blogpulse, bloglines, and blogdigger (and a couple of others that don't come immediately to mind) and in aggregate I'm getting about 15% splog content.
It seems like most of the splog content I'm seeing are complete posts from legitimate blogs wrapped in a splog with an unrelated page of links. This doesn't sound like a very difficult algorithm for Google or Technorati to come up with. Look for "old" content that's being excerpted with a high link to content ratio where the links don't share a lot in common with the content -- or something like that.
I'm not too worried at the current levels since I can quickly move past splog content (only occasionally getting caught by an old post I don't recognize) but if it gets a lot worse, then I'll be forced back to the old whitelist approach and that's just so boring :-)
- A
Guest
· 2 years ago
Hi Robert,
Great blog! Keep up the good work! Perhabs you've seen it already but if not...check the newest splogger-software; http://afeeda.com (I found this info at http://www.mattbrindley.com)
All Comments
;o)
I wanted to see who else called me an idiot. :-)
The sad part is that effectively finding sploggers is an issue in the first place and one, it seems that the search engines either don't want to address or would rather wait for someone else to do it.
The ability for a splogger to churn out hundreds or thousands of splogs is relatively easy.
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9...
Google blog search a little less
Technorati even less
Bloglines and Blogdigger are my blog search engines of choice. There is practically no spam on them at all.
If only we could stop them, as well as spam (I can't believe someone would go through the manual effort of reading my blog to manually send me spam with my name and relevant info on a contest I'm holding including what to put in the subject to avoid spam filters. Unbelievable.
It seems like most of the splog content I'm seeing are complete posts from legitimate blogs wrapped in a splog with an unrelated page of links. This doesn't sound like a very difficult algorithm for Google or Technorati to come up with. Look for "old" content that's being excerpted with a high link to content ratio where the links don't share a lot in common with the content -- or something like that.
I'm not too worried at the current levels since I can quickly move past splog content (only occasionally getting caught by an old post I don't recognize) but if it gets a lot worse, then I'll be forced back to the old whitelist approach and that's just so boring :-)
- A
Great blog! Keep up the good work!
Perhabs you've seen it already but if not...check the newest splogger-software; http://afeeda.com
(I found this info at http://www.mattbrindley.com)
Marc
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