After Google announced its plan to deal with domain tasting, ICANN stepped in and trumped it with a plan that could actually end the practice for good.

Google has always had a stake in spam blogs, but its domain parking service raises its involvement to a new level. Will rumored reforms keep the bad guys away?

If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to use Google Alerts to detect plagiarism, this is the video for you. Learn how to automate your plagiarism detection in just eight minutes.

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.

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 [...]

I’ve noted for some time that the “Stopping Internet Plagiarism” series on the site has fallen into grave disrepair. For example, the instructions for finding the host referenced a service that has not been operation for almost a year and offered complicated instructions when easier tools were available.
So, I’ve started taking some time to rewrite [...]

Anyone who is a regular reader to this site knows that, in order to get Adsense removed from a scraper or plagiarist’s page, you are required to file a DMCA notice.
Adsense has its own DMCA policy and follows it very strictly. Though results can be obtained through that means, few bloggers actually use it.
Not only [...]

On the surface, workFRIENDLY is something of a novelty site.
The idea is pretty simple, you punch in a URL that you want to visit and workFRIENDLY pulls up the site in a format that resembles a Microsoft Word document (see Blog Herald on workFRIENDLY). The idea is that, if you use the site to [...]

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 [...]

Web startup Attributor, previously covered here, has announced the launch of their content monitoring and analysis platform and is openly accepting customers for their service.
According to Attributor, the system “works by allowing publishers to register and digitally fingerprint each piece of content” and then checking for uses of that content that violate previously determined rules [...]