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October 21, 2005

Splogs Again

Back in September, I observed an upswing in Splogs - Blogs established as link parking lots causing a jam up in search results. Now Jeff Jarvis is up in arms (rightly so, I think) about how many Splogs come from Blogspot (i.e. Google).

It does seem to be a trend. Somewhat Frank reports that Ice Rocket has banned Blogspot from search results. Not sure if that is true. It woudl be great if the big guys like Blogspot got out in front of Splog and came up with a plan or, even announced they were trying.

Technorati seems to be trying. Here's what Dave Sifry said on Jeff's blog:

"We’ve been working on this situation for months, and we’ve been working together with the big blog publishers to help deal with spam infestations like what happened over the weekend.

You’ll notice that Technorati’s results should have significantly less spam than before, and we’re continuing to work really hard to keep our index as comprehensive as possible while eliminating spam as quickly as possible, ideally even before any of it gets indexed.

We also are passing this info on to the relevant publishers so that they can eliminate the problem at its source. It’s going to be a multi-tiered resolution, especially because we all want an open blogosphere that allows and encourages anyone to join in the fun."

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