Around the Net

How to Fight Those Surging Splogs

"Splogs," or spam blogs, are the latest way for spammers to manipulate the blogosphere for profit. The phenomenon hit an all-time high recently, when Google's blog-hosting service, Blogger, was inundated with more than 13,000 fake blogs spawned by a script (all have since been taken down). How do you know if you've been splogged? And what can you do to stop it? Here are a few tips:

Read the whole story at Wired, October 27, 2005 »

Next story loading loading..