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Re: Let’s get rid of sploggers

Guest — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:04:15 -0000

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)

Marc
eyelite photography

Re: Let’s get rid of sploggers

Asa Dotzler — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:07:41 -0000

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

Re: Let’s get rid of sploggers

Randy Charles Morin — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:20:31 -0000

I'd like to report blogspot.com. They have thousands of splogs.

Re: Let’s get rid of sploggers

May C — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:17:19 -0000

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.

Re: Let’s get rid of sploggers

Stefan Constantinescu — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:40:19 -0000

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.

Re: Let’s get rid of sploggers

aaron — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:30:42 -0000

How about a simple option to ignore MySplogs, I mean MySpace blogs? That alone would dramatically clean up search results.

Re: Let’s get rid of sploggers

Douglas Karr — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:22:29 -0000

http://www.splogreporter.com/

Re: Let’s get rid of sploggers

monkeyleader — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:08:00 -0000

Ah I see

http://whatis.techtarget.co...

Re: Let’s get rid of sploggers

monkeyleader — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:07:08 -0000

Whats a splogger ?

Re: Let’s get rid of sploggers

Tony M. — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:05:58 -0000

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.

Re: Let’s get rid of sploggers

paul — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 07:51:35 -0000

Edelman now uses Google blog search, I’ve seen it in my logs.

Re: Let’s get rid of sploggers

Louis Gray — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:42:40 -0000

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.

Re: Let’s get rid of sploggers

Robert Scoble — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:41:46 -0000

Of course!

I wanted to see who else called me an idiot. :-)

Re: Let’s get rid of sploggers

yeahsurewhateverok — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:32:46 -0000

Vanity search after the explosive burst onto the political scene?

;o)