SPLOGS - Are "spam blogs" illegal?
SPLOGS or fake blogs are created by spammers to increase the search engine rankings of their web sites used to sell their wares. Technorati reported that over recent weeks there were 805,000 new weblogs created out of which 39,000 are new fake and/or spam weblogs.Splogs have apparently caused losses for the blog service providers as well as search engines. With search engines registering useless results providing links to spam sites - causing a general perception of unreliability. But while spam regulation is being developed globally, this new direction taken by spammers appear to be a clever way of getting the attention of the public without being liable to any known law. However, as with spam, splogs are costing innocent businesses a fair amount of resource.
Will splogs ever be featured in the regulation against spam? Or should the solution be a technical one - to prevent the automatic creation of new blogs mechanically by software. All this somehow sounds very familiar.
WSJ.com - 'Splogs' Roil Web, and Some Blame Google
posted by Harry SK Tan at
10/27/2005 12:48:00 am
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1 Comments:
Hi rhfootball,
Its a matter of perspective. Would you say there is nothing wrong with spam? It depends on which side of the fence you are on.
As for technology needing to get better - it's a given that it will.
But are we willing to wait for it to get better or deal with the problem at hand with what means we have.
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