Blogger is Splog Heaven

My Night of Splog Hell

I want you to try this. Go to Technorati.com and use their "blog post" search tool. Type in three random words like "music", "car," and "honda", or "valley," "car," and "fun". See what you get.

Here's what I got:




It doesn't matter what I was searching for, what does matter is that I had absolutely no chance of finding it. These blogs were being churned out by some spammer all at the same time, obviously using some kind of software. How can Blogger not stop this? How can Technorati not recognize these blogs as spam? What can we do to fix this?

Here is some more information...

Each one of these "splogs" had a VERY long list of links:





Each one of these links went to a page like this, with in turn, another LONG list of links:




The top links went to "real" pages such as this:



I wonder if this photography studio knows they are part of a network of splogs and link farms? If they do, they should be boycotted.

The lower links on these pages...



...went to EXACTLY THE SAME KINDS OF PAGES...I counted seven deep from one link before I got tired of clicking the links!! Incredible!

Here are some domains that were part of the long list of links:

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What can be done to stop this?? What are Blogger, Google, and Technorati doing about it? What can WE do about it? Does anyone have some ideas? I think we should all work together to shut these people down! Who's with me?

*SplogsNoMore*