The Blogosphere is Full of Splogs

Posted on December 17, 2005

UMBC eBiquity recently conducted a study that found 75% of new pings are splogs. The headline for the study says, "Welcome to the Splogosphere." This is not a fun place to be welcomed to.
Micropersuasion argues correctly that this problem needs to be solved:

Clearly this issue is bigger than everyone probably is imagining, despite what David Sifry says. This must be solved now. Who besides Mark Cuban is taking the lead on this? The future of the blogosphere is at stake here. This has to be addressed at the publisher level. Does anyone care about this or is everyone busy building new features?
There are just way to many fake blogs and spammy blogs. No one is interested in reading them. If they continue to grow they will completely gum up the works, overwhelm servers and make blog analysis and blog tracking extra difficult.



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