Comment Spam

It’s About Time

In Comment Spam, Geek, Google, Internet on 19 January 2005 with Comments Off

Google Blog: Preventing comment spam
If you’re a blogger (or a blog reader), you’re painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites’ search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like “Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site.” This is called comment spam, we don’t like it either, and we’ve been testing a new tag [...]

Google Creates Comment Spam

In Comment Spam, Geek, Google, Internet, Weblogs on 19 November 2003 with Comments Off

There’s one central culprit that’s gone unacknowledged in this whole comment spam discussion: Google.
Google is the central motivating force here. Comment spammers are adding their links to thousands of weblogs not because the audiences of those weblogs are particularly valuable, but because the links raise their PageRank with Google.
Now, this is far from the [...]