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Google Reacts to Splogs

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the spam-is-everywhere dept.

labnol writes "Recently, Mark Cuban of Icerocket made the accusation that Blogger is by far the worst offender when it comes to Spam Blogs. Now Google Blogger is introducing Word Verification for user comments to prevent comment spam and another feature called Flag As Objectionable where users can report blogs with questionable content. Google appears to be listening."

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  1. Enough already! by Julian+Morrison · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please neologize without sounding like you're spitting on the floor.

  2. Flag Roland! Oh please, oh please, oh please! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It doesn't get much more spammish or objectionable than that!

  3. Lock the barnyard! by Reaperducer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lock the barn. Hide you farm animals. The pigs are nervous.
    This could lead to more cases like this one.

    --
    -- I'm old enough to have lived through six different meanings of the word "hacker."
  4. Slashsplogs by mattjb0010 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mark Cuban of Icerocket made the accusation that Blogger is by far the worst offender when it comes to Spam Blogs.

    Mark Cuban of Icerocket, allow me to introduce you to Roland Piquepaille of Slashdot...

  5. Re:good for google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The number of such blogs is enormous -- most counts put it between half and 2/3.

    I'm not sure I'd call any number less than one "enormous".