In a pair of previous posts I lauded Google’s progress in the war on Spam on its Blogspot service. Though my intuition was confirmed, at least somewhat, by Google itself, it appears I might have spoken too soon. I recently ran across this link on the social news site Reddit. It is a submissions listing…
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Is Blogger on the Offensive Against Spam?
Updated Information Here As part of running this site, I subscribe to many different Technorati Watchlists. They help me keep up to date on the latest in content-theft and plagiarism-related issues. Unfortunately, I see a great deal of spam blogs on these watchlists. What’s worse, it can be hard to tell, when looking at my…
Update: …And LiveJournal Too
To update yesterday’s post about WordPress.com being relatively free of spam blogs, I was contacted by Anil Dash, a Vice President at Six Apart, about their LiveJournal service. According to Dash, the LiveJournal service, though having a larger user base than WordPress.com and being equally free to use, is also relatively free of spam blogs….
Why WordPress.com is Virtually Spam Free
A recent study by WebmasterWorld found that an estimated 77% of all blogs on Google’s Blogspot service were spam. Similarly, AOL Hometown, had well over 80% of its results turn out to be spam. Even MSN Spaces, which as not mentioned in the report, is claimed to host an estimated ten percent of spammer Web…
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