Tag: SPLOG

This is how you know you've got a problem with splogs (or spam blogs created for the sole purpose of making money through advertising or sales of often dubious products). Google accidentally disabled the Official Google Custom Search blog this morning after Google software identified the blog as spam. digg_url = ...

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 ...