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Web spam

Google launches a new spam industry

by Michael Martinez on December 7, 2009

I am not a big fan of Twitter. I have only recently reluctantly gotten involved with Twitter because it seemed necessary to create activity for several accounts that were set up to protect name spaces. For work I’ve been maintaining http://twitter.com/seo_theory. I’ve also been updating a couple of personal accounts.
Having little time [...]

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Beware new comment spam

by Michael Martinez on October 30, 2009

Once again Google shows us just how uncoordinated a very large organization can be. Webmaster Central is telling us they will now discover new Web pages through comment feeds in ATOM/RSS format.
Why am I the only person to publicly note that this is an invitation to comment spammers to step up their dirty tactics?
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How lexical analysis can combat Web spam

by Michael Martinez on February 13, 2009

Have you ever searched for an article you’ve read before and found it sitting on an unfamiliar site? You might ask yourself, “Is this where I read that piece before?”
That brief moment of doubt has often tipped me off to the fact I was looking at a scraper site. I have found some [...]

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