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March 19, 2007
Splog analysis
Splog analysis: John Markoff of the New York Times gets on the "google must shape up" discussion, in "Researchers track down a plague of fake Web pages". Two Microsoft researchers traced much of the rise in automated content duplication to a small number of customers on two hosting services, supported by three ad services. Key quotes: "Ultimately, it is advertisers' money that is funding the search-spam industry, which is increasingly cluttering the Web with low-quality content and reducing Web users' productivity... The good guys are part of the problem." (I regularly search for public comment on Adobe technologies, and estimate that there's only one solid, novel hit for every page of ten search results.)
Posted by JohnDowdell at March 19, 2007 09:09 AM
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