Splogs Are Taking Over

From eWeek:

"The production of spam blogs as well as the onslaught of spam in the comment sections of blogs—also known as "splog"—is particularly irksome because it dilutes the usefulness of search rankings.

The problem is so acute that major Internet search engines Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.'s MSN division and Yahoo Inc., along with Weblog tool vendor Six Apart Ltd., joined together earlier this year to wage battle on splog.

The group announced a tag called "nofollow" that excludes links in blog comments from search-engine crawlers.

The companies plan to support the HTML tag to keep comment-spam postings out of search engines."

You've probably seen this if you have read anyone's blog comments; usually the spam will consist of something like "Liked your thoughts I am sad lonely college girl with camera will visit me soon yes?"

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