False Positives
Found Words : Splogs
Posted under Found Words, Web, on Thursday, August 25th, 2005;Splogs : short for blog spam, “automated” blogs that point to other blogs with the goal of driving up search engine results, or as they call it, “search engine optimization” (SEO). Also Blogs which do not add value, and exist for no other reason than making cash from click thur web adversiting like Adsense. They reduce the value of hyperlinks and search results, but the costs of adverisiting on the web.
Found via :Rex Hammock: The anti-splog manifesto, Doc Seals : How to Save the Web from Splogonoma , and Mark Cuban: A splog here, a splog there, pretty soon it ads up… and we all lose. update: and Phil Windley: Splogs and Paid Content
Already in wikipedia (darn, I must be slowing down). Goes hand in hand with referral spam (sperral?), tag spam (spag?), comment spam (I got nothing), and trackback spam (spack?), and spam spam
see earlier Spim, or other Found Words
See also
February 6th, 2006 at
Found Words: Spring
Sping : a spam ping that is a fake or bogus notifications that a blog has been updated; in some cases, these spings can amount to a denial-of-service attack, as coined(does anyone have a earlier usage?) by Technorati CEO David Sifry’s in his Februar…