January 19, 2005

The end of comment spam

Finally... One of the "joys" of running a blog is that people will read an article and post a comment to it. One of the down sides is that these comments can be totaly unrelated to the topic and be actual advertisements for pron or gambling sites or mail-order drugs... The people leaving this spam are not directly interested in having you read the comment, they are looking to increase their websites visibility with search engines like Google. From Slashdot: Google Cans Comment Spam bq. "Comment spam is in many ways even more annoying than regular email spam, since you generally have to do more than just hit the delete button to get rid of it. Its defining characteristic is that spammers abuse websites where the public can add content (blogs, wikis, forums, and even top referrer lists) to increase their own ranking in search engines. It seems, however, that the days of content spam are numbered: today Google announced that, in partnership with MSN Search and Yahoo!, that they have implemented a way to block content spam." COOL!!! Posted by DaveH at January 19, 2005 9:57 AM