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- airencracken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Seems accurate, honestly I would have expected the number to be higher.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17that's my personal favourite (unfortunately, dead)
http://digg-dugg.blogspot.com/ - str3ama, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14An easy way to find many of these spam blogs (put these into google):
site:blogspot.com "casinos"
site:blogspot.com "cialis"
site:blogspot.com "credit-card-debt"
site:blogspot.com "debt-consolidation"
site:blogspot.com "holdempoker"
site:blogspot.com "cyclobenzaprine"
You can tell its spam because of the nonsensical language and how all the posts are related to one theme, which generally have an affiliate link somewhere within them. Others steal articles from other sites and they have javascript code that redirects you to the affiliate link after x seconds. Others try to stuff keywords in to the site and try to conceal it in the background. Now if only google could do these searches and remove those results or bloggers! - Ryuukuro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Not surprising, but will this finally push Google to delete them? I generally don't care how someone uses their blog but if one is being manned by a computer just to spit garbage out onto the intertubes then that blog needs to be destroyed.
- goostoff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12@llanowar
Actually, 99% of blogs worldwide are *****. - incubus13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9And the comments of those spam blogs are filled with spam comments.... Oh the irony!
- riccohasdug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I thought it would be higher, myself.
Look at AOL's numbers:
hometown.aol.com - 84%
hometown.aol.de - 91%
home.aol.com - 95%
Wow. - mattprice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I'd take a bet that 15% of the remaining 25% have between 1 and 3 posts and haven't been updated in the past 6 months.
- kazaru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I run a blog hosting site, and I can attest to rampant spam attacks. It got so bad that I have lost almost all my legitimate users, and am debating closing it down. Despite everything I do they find ways to circumvent my security measures. Hearing that google has the same problem makes me feel a little better but I'm still equally pissed off.
- way2muchsense, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What will push Google to police spam blogs is competition, in much the same way that Mozilla forced Micro$oft to finally, at long last, fix the security problems and lack of features in Internet Exploder.
Spammers should be shot. There isn't a single part of cyberspace that they haven't managed to pollute to the point of it having been rendered useless. - nicepants, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Didn't I read this article before on Captain Obvious .com?
- gharding, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I've found that many blog accounts are signed up for by spammers, but never actually posted in. I've never totally understood why that happens, but on a site I maintain, there are probably 20,000 accounts and the majority of them are empty or spam.
- fuckingusername, on 10/12/2007, -0/+476% diggs post are lame
move along,,,,,,,, - kingmad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Me and my *Akismet* logs have absolutely no problem believing that... although I might have placed the percentage a bit higher.
- Prysorra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@ godamit: Wow. That one's actually funny.
I wonder if I can get a job clicking the "next blog" link on top of blogspot pages, click "this is spam", and move on..... - nicepants, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3As does the filthy creature who initiated the onslaught.
- mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'll see your pedantry and raise you a Wikipedia entry!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage
In British English, percent is usually written as two words (per cent, although percentage and percentile are written as one word). - rustybrick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3And it is a direct copy of an article one of my writers wrote at http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/012778.html. It is almost an exact copy. Of course, infoniac.com has no way to reach them to contact them.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4maddox is very correct on this
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=banish - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Don't forget the ubuntu blogspam. Most of the posts in those are just copied from ubuntuforums.
- gharding, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It would seriously be interesting to see the bandwidth drop for that. With all the scanning, emailing, and comment/blog posting, it must generate tons of traffic.
- hollywoodphony, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What's the point of having a non-spam blog? If you create original content that isn't related to products that can be sold through Adsense, nobody cares. It's not about writing or creating anything, it's about being the first person to link to something else or write a list of ten things everyone else already knows. The only ads I have on my Wordpress site are the ones Wordpress puts there.
- JerodSlay, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5PERCENT IS ONE WORD!!! WHY CAN"T PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THIS?????
- Llanowar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Well... it's higher if you enlist all blogs in the world.
I bet 99% of all blogs in the world are spam... - DaDiggCode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://digg-dugg.blogspot.com/
The Digg's should be a techno remix of some sort! hahah - elhaf, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Not too happy with the methodology here. Let's see, search for some well-spammed term on blogspot.com, find lots of spam. p.s., don't forget to define spam as any blog which uses adsense.
- Speaking, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Buried for the title being intentionally misleading, plagerized *****, posted to increase www.infoniac.com's traffic. The thread on webmaster world: http://www.webmasterworld.com/msn_microsoft_search/3286525.htm just links to the original article published on yahoo, "researched" by MSN. Webmasterworld (which is awesome) didn't publish these findings.
Yes, a lot (most) blogs are just spam, but so was this digg.
fight spam. DDOS www.infoniac.com - HaltingPoint, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2elhaf-
Blogs with adsense are NOT blogspam necessarily. I'm really getting sick of people assuming that. First, most of the big sites Diggers love....Boingboing, TechCrunch, Consumerist....those are all blogs!!! Guess how they make money? Ads. Tons of em. More ads than the usual 3 AdSense units most blogspot blogspam has.
So get over it already and stop improperly labeling things. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2HERE'S AN IDEA: Imagine at least one day on the internet without spam of any kind (emails, splogs, etc.) The internet would be amazingly efficient. Maybe 75% more efficient.
- Alphabet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1what security measures have you implemented? Maybe I or other people on digg can offer/share advice on what types of security measures you can add to your site.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Flipping this on its back, so 25% of the blogs that mention 'phentermine' are legitimate? I highly doubt that. "I'm on phentermine, look at me!" isn't a common blogging topic.
- jspider, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1“The researchers scanned 1000 most searched queries: 'phentermine' on blogspot.com and the query 'ringtone' on hometown.aol.com.”
… What did the researchers expect to find under those words? Legitimate phentermine dealers on blogspot? Homepages on AOL that talked about grampa’s favorite ringtone? C’mon. Loser research. I bet a search for ‘cialis’ on geocities would turn up duds too.
If they searched blogspot for current news topics or AOL for little jimmy’s 8th grade graduation pics or geocities for dungeons and dragons cheat codes I bet it would have turned out different. - Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2...and 94% of that 75% are submitted to digg (only 92% get through though, thanks to the intellectuals that are diggs mainstay, being capable of spotting spam).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i demand a recount
- angusm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1str3ama explains an easy way to find splogs (spam blogs). I know another one. Just put a comment form on your site and after about three days, you'll receive notifications of thousands of new splogs every day. Or the same one a thousand times, whichever. Amazing but true - it really works.
- quotato, on 10/12/2007, -0/+199% of all numbers in the phone book I will never call. The reference article is spam.
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So what? They will never pop up on the first page on my Google searches..Thank you, PageRank!
- euphemizeme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The other 25 percent are blogs which regurgitate exactly, or in some cases substandard, stuff they read on another blog. Take this article for instance... Any article that mentions a study, but does not link to it or tell you in which journal it appeared, is worthless.
- quick5pnt0cobra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sounds about right.
- Woknblues, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Are people really "surfing" blogs?
I will go to one if it is referred by a trustworthy source, but when I google, which I probably make 15-25 searches per day for the past few years, I have never gone to a blog. Am I doing something wrong? - shaman312, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That might be because the 'article' is a watered-down version of another piece: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070319/tc_pcworld/129957; which was published before the one submitted here.
Plagerism? I don't know.
What bothered me about both stories was the lack of content. No reference to the study, who paid for it or who researched it. No consensus definition of 'spam.' No comment from the 'other side' to balance the reporting.
That's the conflict we inherit with new journalism. Anyone can write so-called news under the umbrella of the First Amendment. The journalism industry constantly challenges the validity of blogs while simultaneously shoving slanted 'news' down our throats because our appetite for entertainment sells advertisements.
As long as the general public continues to feed the trend, true news consumers bear the burden to weigh the merits of a story and its sources. - cdtoad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Blogger et al should charge a $1.00 setup fee via credit card for people to use their service. This would cut down on the amount of automated crap and put more money into their pockets... It would keep the level of horse sh*t down since most of these snake oil salesmen don't want to spend a dime to get their message out.
- jibijibi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0tell me something I don't know
- battleroyalex, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Dug down for thinking percent is two words.
- theratdotus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1is my blogspot considered spam? www.nycisfallingdown.blogspot.com
- nickschmidt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That isn't bad compared to those others.. but 77% is still a lot
- oscaryo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1There wasn't enough detail in the article to judge the veracity of the study, but I would expect that if one searches for a commercial term or tradename, most of the findings would be spam. Nonetheless, this raises the question of the purpose and value of blogs.
- mgilligan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This just in...75 percent of Digg is spam
- shr3kst3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Some sites are starting to block all blogspot blogs. I found an example of this yesterday, it can be found here: http://shr3kst3r.blogspot.com/2007/03/cuddletech-spam-is-not-appreciated.html
It kind of sucks for us non-spammers... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0If you search for spam, you will find spam. This article is ridiculous and they never defined what their definition of spam is either.
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