Wednesday, October 19, 2005

3 Random Blogs - No Splog

I wanted to test out my suggestion to click the "next blog" button to demonstrate for yourself how much splog there is on Blogger.

My first three clicks came up with -

Katrina's cycling to Sydney expedition diary 2005-2006

davidandlara

crunk and disorderly | | reloaded

Crunk and disorderly | | reloaded doesn't have a "next blog" button so I had to settle for a sample size of 3.

So much for my suggestion that clicking the "next blog" button would land you in page after page of random spam blogs filled with crappy links.

Those three random blogs are cool. Hmmmm.

Maybe, hopefully, the people at Blogger shut the gates on the spambloggers.

Spam blogs have been a hot topic this week, see Blogger Buzz: Spam Barriers and VeriSign Tackles the Scandal of Splog.

I had pretty much quit using the next blog feature a few months back because there was so many spam pages showing up.

From this users knothole, it appears Blogger has made some definite improvements to filter out spam blogs when using the next blog button.

I'm glad to see human created content again and would like to thank the people who came up with the solution with a spoem (a poem about spam) -

Blogger gurus working through the night
Making sure everything works all right
Cleaning up the sphere
We hold so dear
Thanks to you there's no more splog to fear
Don't we know it
Now if you could only do something to help this poet