http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/ http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/images/logo.png http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/ en Copyright 2010 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:51:24 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "A study of the WebmasterWorld states that 75% of all blogs on Google's blogspot are spam." Isn't that exaggerated ? I was more surprised with the spam percentage on top doorway domains: blogspot.com 77% netscape.com 74% hometown.aol.com 84% hometown.aol.de 91%... http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2007/03/googles_blogspot_contains_75_s.html http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2007/03/googles_blogspot_contains_75_s.html Studies Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:51:24 +0000 I was working last night on Antisplog and find some new issues which are very interesting. The most important issue is related to splogs which use a very minimal page with 3 or 4 links to other splogs of their... http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2006/11/the_splogs_network.html http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2006/11/the_splogs_network.html General Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:37:12 +0000 Since last year I had several issues while working on Antisplog.net project mainly due to lack of hardware and bandwidth resources. Currently the database is indexing about 1,697,355 blogs, and according the last study I have made two months ago... http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2006/11/status_of_the_antisplognet_pro.html http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2006/11/status_of_the_antisplognet_pro.html General Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:54:56 +0000 After running Pingoat service, Kailash started a new website to fight splogs : SplogSpot.com. I have contacted Kailash before the announcement of SplogSpot but didn't want to talk about it before it's being officially announced. SplogSpot is based on splogs... http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/splogspotcom_yet_another_antis.html http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/splogspotcom_yet_another_antis.html General Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:31:06 +0000 Today I paused the AntiSplog spider at 2,056,958 Blog. Frist I was going to study the behaviour on 1 million then I keep it running for the second million since it didn't took long time. But I needed to stop... http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/antisplog_index_feeded_with_2.html http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/antisplog_index_feeded_with_2.html General Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:30:50 +0000 As I have already announce it, the antisplog spider is running now and indexing blogs. I have added a counter to inform about the spider progress, it's updated every 10 to 30 minutes. Indexed blogs aren't yet filtered, this is... http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/blogs_spider_launched.html http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/blogs_spider_launched.html General Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:20:59 +0000 Joe Chongq make an excellent Antisplog review, with a total of 311 sites where 110 are normal blogs and 201 splogs. He find 36% of the AntiSplog results were missclassified, which is 113 Blogs !! . Personaly I find it... http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/another_antisplog_review_and_t.html http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/another_antisplog_review_and_t.html General Sat, 17 Sep 2005 14:16:36 +0000 Technorati is organizing the second Web Spam Summit taking place next week at Google's headquarters in Mountain View. Technical leaders from companies and projects involved in publishing and indexing content on the web will come together for a day-long summit... http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/technorati_announces_the_secon.html http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/technorati_announces_the_secon.html General Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:51:40 +0000 I would like to thank Jean VÉRONIS for reviewing Antisplog.net available in english and french. Jean tested about 42 working blogs and find out 39 correct result. The three erronous results two of them are normal blogs and just 1... http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/antisplog_reviewed.html http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/antisplog_reviewed.html General Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:31:45 +0000 I have almost finished writing the AntiSplog.net Spider, it will help too much to get more cases of spam to study. I have separated the spider in two parts the blogs collector and the blogs filter because the two tasks... http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/antisplog_spider_will_be_runni.html http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/antisplog_spider_will_be_runni.html General Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:33:04 +0000 In the previous post about bad spammers I talked about some experimented spammers, but today I noticed something special which are "new spammers" , which came with new idea, new blogs and new techniques which are not detected as splogs... http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/rss_feeds_help_to_create_conte.html http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/rss_feeds_help_to_create_conte.html General Wed, 14 Sep 2005 02:47:56 +0000 "Matt Haughey has inspired other bloggers to organize an official day to help us find spam blogs". Have announced the Buzz Blogger days ago. I was a little busy to announce this before, but I have setup an auto-blogger reporting.... http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/flagday_splog_detected_and_rep.html http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/flagday_splog_detected_and_rep.html General Sat, 10 Sep 2005 07:20:42 +0000 I don't know if I should call them bad spammers or smart ones, cause all spam is bad. But I noticed that some splog can escape AntiSplog for the simple reason that they don't use blogspot as a hosting, but... http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/bad_spammers_knows_how_to_esca.html http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/bad_spammers_knows_how_to_esca.html General Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:48:55 +0000 There is many techniques that have been developped to fight spam, specially email spam, and I was wondering how these techniques could be helpful for splogs also. Before implementing AntiSplog, I have tested bayes theorem to classify splogs the result... http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/thoughts_on_bayasian_filters_a.html http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/thoughts_on_bayasian_filters_a.html General Wed, 07 Sep 2005 05:13:46 +0000 AntiSplog beta 1.0 have been launched to study and provide a solution to spam blogs. After launching the services we create this blog to talk about this new solution, the idea behind it, how we could use it and improve... http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/antisplognet_blog_launched.html http://antisplog.phpmagazine.net/2005/09/antisplognet_blog_launched.html General Tue, 06 Sep 2005 06:28:11 +0000