A splog here, a splog there, pretty soon it ads up… and we all lose
The media and some blog search engines have gotten excited about counting the number of blogs in the blogosphere. If the number of blogs is growing, the medium must be real. Right ?
Right in concept. Unfortunately its impossible to count the number of blogs in the blogosphere due to the number of spamblogs, splogs, zombies, whatever you want to call them.
While the number of blogs has been placed by those who like to speculate about such things in the 15mm range, new blogs per day in the 30k to 80k range, and blogposts per day in the 500k to 900k range, no one seems to want to put an asterick next to any of those numbers and try to remove the number splogs.
Whats a splog ? A splog is any blog whose creator doesnt add any written value. Im sure some might argue that packaging data , such as news feeds or the blog posts of others is added value. I dont think it is. After all, thats why there are topics and indexes. If I want information about the Dallas Mavericks, I can search for it, optimize it, and save it. Because indexes are based on freshness, my searches are automatically updated, freshest data first, as new posts are introduced. [...]
Right on the spot. That’s cool dude… and according to this slashdot story google’s been listening. Let’s make the internet a better place… let’s make the blogoshere a better place. What a day! Phew…
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Somewhat Frank on 21.08.2005 @ 05:56 pm.
Splog Reporter Improves Functionality With New Look
The recent release of Splog Reporter was met with much enthusiasm. I received many suggestions and appreciated all of your feedback. The splog URLs have been flying in via the website. However, it did not take long to realize
b0b0s on 21.08.2005 @ 09:29 pm.
good article buddy. keep on track
pestaola.gr » Blog Archive » Splogs (ξανά) on 18.10.2005 @ 12:09 am.
[...] Είχαμε κάνει αναφορά στα Splogs παλιότερα αλλά φαίνεται πως η κατάσταση χειροτερεύει συνεχώς με το κύριο πρόβλημα να έρχεται από τις δωρεάν παροχές όπως το blogspot.com ή αλλιώς blogger.com (ναι το google είναι!). [...]