Mike Graves

Mike Graves
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There's a lot of hype regarding how much the blogosphere has grown, and it has, and a lot of it is legitimate blogs with real content. But there's a scandal under the surface.
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They're fairly sophisticated, template-driven to provide a specified blog with appropriate posts and pages, a thousand at a time, ... But inevitably they leave some kind of structure, some kind of signature behind, that you can say, 'Ah ha, that has the fingerprint of tools out there that create these blogs.'
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On the back side, we see pings from Blogger.com, and an enormous number are splogger pings. Google obviously has a filtering mechanism in its own perimeter. They use search and textual analysis tools, quickly and fairly accurately, I'd say. You'd likely find two or three out of 50 that are spam blogs.
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Sometimes that's the only law you can find.