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Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:41:33 GMT
Google: Kill Blogspot Already!!!

Chris Pirillo: In the past few days, I've been inundated with an enormous amount of subscribed search spam for designated keywords. 99% of the crap coming in is directly from a single domain: blogspot.com.

http://chris.pirillo.com/blog/_archives/2005/10/16/1302867.html

Randy: Confirmed! I get much of the same. At one point, it looked like Google was shutting down the Blogspot SPAM and even shutting down Adsense on splogs. This seems to have stopped. I don't think Google needs to shutdown Blogspot.com, but surely they need to devise a strategy to stop the splogs.

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What I'm suggesting is a captcha mechanism for publishing. That would HAVE to curb the flooding that's happening.
Captchas are bad for accessibility and generally discourage posts.

Randy

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