With the Internet becoming more international in every regard and laws in the U.S. turning against spammers, it seems odd that so many spammers are still concentrated within the United States. However, the reasons are simple to understand.

Though it seemed as if Google was starting to make some headway into the spam blog problem on its Blogger service, the spammers seem to have turned the tide by cracking the CAPTCHA system and creating more accounts than ever before.

As scraping via email has gained greater attention, the problem has brought the problem of spam blogs to the doorstep of mailing list administrators and group moderators. Learn how to protect your list.

Spammers are nothing if not clever and a new technique to scrape posts could cause headaches for bloggers as it thwarts many of the traditional means of shutting down the scrapers.

Sometimes it is far too easy for a legitimate site to be mistaken for a spam blog. However, that need not be a problem if you follow these simple steps.

Robert Scoble kicked off a controversy when he was banned from Facebook for, according to him, running a script from a competing social network, Plaxo, designed to extract his Facebook account data and port it over to an account elsewhere.
The response was very divided. Many supported Scoble for what he did while others accused him [...]

A presentation by Jason Calacanis at LeWeb3 earlier this month drew attention the problem of Web “pollution” as a threat to the Internet itself.
According to Calacanis, Usenet is an case study on what is currently happening to the Web. In his speech, he stated that Usenet, ten to fifteen years ago, was a very [...]

Though it doesn’t make much sense, Google Image Search had not been indexing images on its Google’s own Blogspot service until earlier this month.
Though this is good news in that it will improve the effectiveness of image search techniques, such as the digital fingerprint method I described on the Blog Herald, it could also [...]

It appears that Google’s push to handle duplicate content may be having an unintended side effect.
Even though a recent report by Attributor indicates that the search engine has done a terrible job separating originals from copies, the spammers don’t seem to be taking any chances.
Spam bloggers are no longer content on scraping entries [...]

For the next chapter in the “DMCA Seven” series, we’re taking a look at one of the most common types of hosts out there, blog hosts.
Many of these hosts have been copyright headaches for Webmasters. They are prime targets for spam blogs and scrapers and some have played a huge role in rise of [...]