Today I've been able to shut down 697 splogs by reporting them to Google. I've quadrupled my efforts tonight and if Google removes every one of the reported splogs there should be several thousand less splogs in the world tommorow.
I've been tweaking my set of splog processing scripts and it's finding massive number of splogs with much greater efficiency. Perhaps it's working little too well because it found more than 18000 gambling related splogs. About three weeks ago I've reported a mixed batch of about 2000 splogs but most of them weren't deleted. I think Google support staff freaked over the size of the list and decided to simply ignore it. I found out today the trick to get Google to delete these splogs is to report them in a small convenient chunks. Trying to figure out how I can separate out 18000 splogs into some logical chunks is actually harder than finding the splogs in the first place.
SPLOG = SPAM + BLOG
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
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Excellent job! We are all greatful for what you do.
I use pubsub to find blog postings about my home town (Virginia Beach, VA). The results are littered with splogs. I'm sure you could use a feed from any resort town to find many, many travel related splogs.
Depending on how your program works you could just group them game within the larger group of gambling.
If you can show Google that the whole group seems to be by the same spammer they might deal with a bit larger set of URLs.
Another easy way would be to group report based on Blogger ID if you can figure it out. If they see a single Blogger with hundereds of splogs they might do something about it.
oh c'mon .. you gotta laugh at that... what irony. Is there any way to delete lucysmith7449 ??
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