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[Radar.oreilly.com] O'Reilly Radar > Search Engine Spam?: However, your assumptions that Rome-Hotels-X.com is one of these sites and "is not actually providing a valuable service, but is just trying to scam off PageRank" are not only incorrect, they're impossible. If you http://rome-hotels-x.com/robots.txt">look closer, you'll notice that this site uses the http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html">Robots.txt Exclusion Protocol and is therefore not able to be indexed by Google, nor able to accumulate Google PageRank.
[Weblog.philringnalda.com] phil ringnalda : O’Reilly joins the search engine spam parade: In the time it takes me to compile Firefox, which is what gave me the spare time, I could maybe have dug out an email from the corporate site, and sent off what I would have considered a totally hopeless email, or I could write a post for my friends, saying “crap, have you seen this, the O’Reilly sites spam search engines!” That seemed more likely to blow off my steam and amuse me, and I certainly wasn’t expecting this to be such a slow news week that it would get any more attention than my posts usually do.
[Oreillynet.com] Freedom is Slavery - O'Reilly XML Blog: I thought Six Apart's attempt on marginalizing the issue of comment spam earlier this year with their TypeKey authentication service and API was laudable because it put a few of those hard to program steps in place without requiring separate accounts on each weblog or installation of additional software. It also struck a balance between distributed and localized control.
[Transparent Start-Up] Spam + Blogs = Trouble: Blogs are the leading edge of what is often called Web 2.0, the vision of the Internet as a bottom-up, communal platform for data of all sorts that is generated and continually updated by its users: the image-sharing sites Flickr and YouTube, the social bookmarking destination del.icio.us, the collaborative online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the user-generated Slashdot rival digg, and publicly viewable online calendars like Kiko and CalendarHub. Unfortunately, the very openness and ease of use that make these Web 2.0 sites popular will inevitably make them perfect targets for spammers, says Matt Mullenweg, developer of the popular WordPress blogging system.
[customerservant.com] Spam+Blogs=Trouble: Spam+Blogs=Trouble By Rahel on Friday 8 September 2006 - 15 Elul, 5766 at 7:51 Splogs are the latest thing in online scams - and they could smother the Internet. By Charles C.
[Challies Dot Com :: Putting The Fun In Fundamentalism] Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Blog: It is situations like this that cast a shadow over the blogosphere, for it has given voice to a whole new breed of gossips. People with only a story, no matter how little evidence is provided, can gather an audience and turn the opinions of men and women, even against a man with the long record of R.C.
[ha.ckers.org web application security lab] CAPTCHA Curiosity: If a human CAPTCHA solver can average 1 CAPTCHAs every 2 secs, that’s $0.33/KiloCAPTCHA. If we instead force the user’s machine to do 5 CPU seconds of work, that’s $1.39/KiloCAPTCHA, more than 4 times as expensive.
[*michael parekh on IT*] ON BLOG SPAM AND POSSIBLE MEASURES: But whereas email spammerstry to induce recipients to buy products, sploggers and other Webspammers make most of their money by getting viewers to click on adsthat run adjacent to their nonsensical text. Web page owners - thespammer, in this case - get paid by the advertiser every time someoneclicks on an ad."
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