Google Inside

Something we have seen time and time again is spam on the Internet. I’m just getting sick of the spam around the web. I’m not talking about the spam comments, I’m not even talking about the e-mail spams you receive every hour; I’m talking about sploggers. Better known as “Spam Bloggers,” we have all learned and come to hate them.

These “sploggers” regurgitate the Internet and waste space. They waste bandwidth, they waste my time by having to moderate their stupid pingbacks that have absolutely no value, they waste storage space on servers, they just an entire waste.

So what have I done to help cut down on the splogging around the world? For starters, I switched to partial feeds because I was getting sick of writing these full articles and then having a splogger just gobble it up and re-post it. What value does that have? None. None what soever.

Splogging is cluttering the Internet and is a complete waste.

Planet planet is a different case though. This application is, well, for the professionals. You may be thinking right now “professionals? who does this guy think he is claiming that only professionals can use planet planet.” I say professionals because it’s a lot more work to actually get planet planet setup and functioning properly.

There are so many plugins out there for Wordpress to just “feed” your feed into another blog that it makes splogging so easy to do — and even more worthless!

The idea behind this article came up when I was doing some consumer product research (sorry, I can’t remember the exact item.) I was getting hits from splogs left and right which just made me sick. So you know, yes, I still use Google as my search engine — although this may change in the future as they keep decreasing their index by penalizing sites for paid links (but that’s neither here nor there.) Google needs to do some serious clean up work on their spam index.

There are a lot of legitimate sites out there that should rank higher and Google needs to polish up their algorithm.