Google's Blogspot is 3/4 Spam

by Grant Robertson on March 22, 2007 at 10:00 PM


From the we-could-have-told-you-that department. An article released Monday by PC World says as many as 3 out of 4 Blogspot blogs are actually Splogs -- a slang term for Spam blogs which exist only to swindle click-through ad dollars.

According to the PC World story, "Three out of every four unique Blogspot.com URLs that appeared in the top 50 results for commercial queries were spam"

Some days you have to ask yourself, why does Google continue to let these situations run wild? It's so circular; Splogs wind up clogging search results, which cause advertisers -- even those using Google's own Adsense -- to spend money on clicks they could have earned themselves, if only they didn't have to compete for search rankings with all the splogs. Oh, wait.. I think we just found the reason.

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