<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34392499</id><updated>2011-04-21T18:42:45.589-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Splogs No More</title><subtitle type='html'>Blogger.com is a haven for splogs. Google is a haven for link farms. They are taking over the internet. Fight Spam!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://splogsnomore.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34392499/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://splogsnomore.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Spam Fighter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14272304724025386555</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34392499.post-115848327793286491</id><published>2006-09-17T01:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-17T01:54:37.946-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Some of Tonight's Blogger Splogs Listed on Technorati</title><content type='html'>There are plenty more. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/splogs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/splogs.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are pointing to link farms on the domain (6 digit number).businesz.org&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34392499-115848327793286491?l=splogsnomore.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://splogsnomore.blogspot.com/feeds/115848327793286491/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34392499&amp;postID=115848327793286491' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34392499/posts/default/115848327793286491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34392499/posts/default/115848327793286491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://splogsnomore.blogspot.com/2006/09/some-of-tonights-blogger-splogs-listed.html' title='Some of Tonight&apos;s Blogger Splogs Listed on Technorati'/><author><name>Spam Fighter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14272304724025386555</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34392499.post-115838552490432983</id><published>2006-09-15T22:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-15T22:47:43.006-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I was not able to flag some Blogger splogs...</title><content type='html'>The navbar was there but nothing happened when I tried to flag them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/unable%20to%20flag.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/unable%20to%20flag.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34392499-115838552490432983?l=splogsnomore.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://splogsnomore.blogspot.com/feeds/115838552490432983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34392499&amp;postID=115838552490432983' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34392499/posts/default/115838552490432983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34392499/posts/default/115838552490432983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://splogsnomore.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-not-able-to-flag-some-blogger.html' title='I was not able to flag some Blogger splogs...'/><author><name>Spam Fighter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14272304724025386555</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34392499.post-115838533044571213</id><published>2006-09-15T22:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-15T22:42:10.453-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tonights Spam Domain is Techco.org</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/techco.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/320/techco.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34392499-115838533044571213?l=splogsnomore.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://splogsnomore.blogspot.com/feeds/115838533044571213/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34392499&amp;postID=115838533044571213' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34392499/posts/default/115838533044571213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34392499/posts/default/115838533044571213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://splogsnomore.blogspot.com/2006/09/tonights-spam-domain-is-techcoorg.html' title='Tonights Spam Domain is Techco.org'/><author><name>Spam Fighter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14272304724025386555</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34392499.post-115829643789669745</id><published>2006-09-14T21:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-15T14:17:32.653-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tonight's Technorati- Listed Splogs</title><content type='html'>Tonight's Technorati search produced: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With links to pages on this domain: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/surl.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/surl.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/end1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/end1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some "end link" pages, and my question to those in charge of the pages below would be do they know they are involved with a big time spammer? Are they looking for an easy way to get page ranking?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/end4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/end4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/end2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/end2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/end3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/end3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/end5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/end5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/end6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/end6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/end7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/end7.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's all I have for now.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34392499-115829643789669745?l=splogsnomore.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://splogsnomore.blogspot.com/feeds/115829643789669745/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34392499&amp;postID=115829643789669745' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34392499/posts/default/115829643789669745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34392499/posts/default/115829643789669745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://splogsnomore.blogspot.com/2006/09/tonights-technorati-listed-splogs.html' title='Tonight&apos;s Technorati- Listed Splogs'/><author><name>Spam Fighter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14272304724025386555</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34392499.post-115823395021448060</id><published>2006-09-14T03:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-15T03:54:59.033-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Blogger is Splog Heaven</title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;My Night of Splog Hell&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's what I got:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/untitled2.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/untitled2.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/untitled3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/untitled3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/untitled4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/untitled4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is some more information... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each one of these "splogs" had a VERY long list of links: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/untitled5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/untitled5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/untitled6b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/untitled6b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/untitled6c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/untitled6c.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each one of these links went to a page like this, with in turn, another LONG list of links:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/top.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/top.0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/linkfromsplog2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/linkfromsplog2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The top links went to "real" pages such as this: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/linkfromsplog1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/linkfromsplog1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lower links on these pages...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/more%20links.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/more%20links.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...went to EXACTLY THE SAME KINDS OF PAGES...I counted seven deep from one link before I got tired of clicking the links!! Incredible!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some domains that were part of the long list of links: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/1600/domains.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6396/3789/400/domains.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*SplogsNoMore*&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34392499-115823395021448060?l=splogsnomore.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://splogsnomore.blogspot.com/feeds/115823395021448060/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34392499&amp;postID=115823395021448060' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34392499/posts/default/115823395021448060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34392499/posts/default/115823395021448060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://splogsnomore.blogspot.com/2006/09/blogger-is-splog-heaven.html' title='Blogger is Splog Heaven'/><author><name>Spam Fighter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14272304724025386555</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>
