March 21, 2007

Google's to Blame for search engine result SPAM Microsoft has a report out, that analyzes the sources of what it calls Web spam. The "Spam Double-Funnel: Connecting Web Spammers with Advertisers" report describes how users end up getting duped into clicking search results that appear to link to one domain, but end up redirecting to a site loaded with more links to advertisers. Free blog hosting service blogspot (an optional hosting service for Blogger-powered blogs) "was responsible for about one in every four spam appearances (22% and 29% in the two benchmarks respectively, to be exact)" in instances involving "doorway domains." Regarding these types of domains, the report notes, "Typically, spammers create spam blogs, such as http://PhentermineNoPrescriptionn.blogspot.com, and use these doorway URLs to spam the comment area of other forums." 6:12:31 AM