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Splogs Clog Blog Services
SuperWebTech writes "A new generation of spam has emerged lately in the form of automatically-created spam blogs, or "splogs." One wily programmer manipulated Blogger's API to create a "spamalanche" of thousands of blogs whose sole purpose was to increase their real sites' pagerank. This clogged search engine results while filling RSS feed services with useless listings. Though Google, Blogger's owner, is doing its best to fix the problem, in the meantime several services have stopped listing any site they host. So far nobody has found a solution."
With the Splogosphere maturing, we can expect to see Splogcasts in the near future.
Any trend that has added so much crap to the English language deserves what it gets. After reading the "words" blog, splogsplosion, splog, and spamalanche, I must take a shower.
... much hyped statistics like 'a new blog created every 2 seconds'.
picture, print that document out, attach it with your photo ID, and fax it to (800) Goo-gle1
I feel like I'm in a fog, without a seeing eye dog. What a sog! Burninate, Trog! Jeremiah was a bullfrog, but there was a server backlog. And that was just the prologue. Later we took a jog to get some egg nog. Just make sure to oil the cog. I know its a slog, but its better than smog. Thats the end of this log.
The trick is to figure out which are "splogs" and which are "real" blogs, because both are usually crap.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
On a similar note, I think "Splogs Clog Blog Logs" would be a much better title.
There should be an annual Seuss day where all article titles must be tongue twisters, and all summaries must be done in nonsensical rhyme.
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
That is the most Sun-like headline I've ever seen on slashdot. For those of you who aren't in the know about crappy British tabloids, The Sun* is like the most popular paper in the country, and I think owned by Darth Murdoch himself. They quite helpfully have pictures on their main page of recent headlines (flash), hence the link.
*Health warning: please shield your eyes whilst loading the site. The sudden visual impact of the Sun's website can cause severe disorientation, epileptic fits, vomiting, and in some cases death. Not recommended for pregnant women or people with heart conditions
Honestly, with everyone and their mom jumping on the blogging bandwagon and the general quality of said blogs approaching robot created jibberish, I honestly think the blog hosting companies are in for quite a struggle determining spam from cruft. Although, if their automated measures also wipe out some of these inane blogs as well perhaps the authors will get a hint and the blogsphere will be a better place AFTER the spammers arrived--imagine that.
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.' - Douglas Adams
Ahhh, one step closer to the inevitable webterm of "splooge."
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Hmmm - keeping useless information from clogging the "blogosphere" has got to be one tough gig.
Reminds me of time I ate to much ham shoulder. Doctor say, "Spam caused bog clog." Needed enema.
Make douchbaggery a hangable offense.
"We the jury find the defendent guilty of 1,204,652 counts of false advertising, and one count of being a world-class prick. We hereby sentence him to be hung by the neck until he is dead."
---If you can't trust a nerd, who can you trust?
All blogs were already spam. Now it's just unashamedly so.
I agree with parent. My penis has grown a whole six feet since I started using the internet.
Spam jams Stan's LAN.
Guy's WiFi goes awry.
CERN confirms worm, firms squirm.
Forget cassette and diskette, USB key snazzy.
Nimrods applaud iPods abroad, while tightwads called slipshod clawed screen fraud.
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Red Phish, Blue Phish.
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