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."

Comments

s/rediculus/ridiculous/

[Ahaldra]

and there instead of they. brrrrr.

this problem will not go away

[drDugan]

people and machines
people are (biological) machines
machines emulating people
machines competing with people

within the next few years, computer interaction online and human interaction online will INCREASINGLY pass the sniff test as undifferentiable. a few years after that, there will clearly be no way to tell if online text is human or computer generated.

what I say is -- why stop it? why give moral preference to human thoughts vs. computer output? frankly, in most interactions, my expereince tells me to trust the silicon machines over the carbon ones.

Re:It's a typo, you tool.

[stupidfoo]

The funny thing is that I wasn't even responding to your post. My post was in response to sethadam1's. Toodles.

Re:How to tell the diff. between Blogs and Splogs:

[KillerDeathRobot]

Hooked on Phonics would not teach you the difference between "useful" and "usefull".

Maybe you should look at the definition again. "Useful" and "Usefull" are phonetically identical (to English speakers). Hooked on Phonics would not teach any difference between the two spellings.

When you're trying to insult people through ridiculous pedantry, at least be right.