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

You know why this happens?

[nagora]

Because PageRank sucks and has done for years. It worked for about a year until rigging it became a financially rewarding activity and since then it has served no purpose.

If Google could at least exclude blogs from the main index it might help a bit but in the long run PageRank is a dead duck.

TWW

Re:Damn Blog Hogs, Go swim in a Bog

[Rocketship Underpant]

You deserve to be flogged and drowned in grog! I am truly agog. Well, they say, when in Prague...