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Spam

What’s with Akismet ?

July 10, 2007

Akismet, one of the best anti-spam webservice has helped lot of websites including mine in identifying and blocking spam comments and trackbacks. However from the past few days, I am spending more time deleting spam comments and these comments are also making way as comment subscription notifications.

The comment text is generally the same: “Nice“, “Interesting” [...]

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Akismet Admin Page

February 5, 2007

Akismet, one of the best anti-spam webservices has helped lot of websites in identifying and blocking spam comments and trackbacks.
However the Admin page of the Akismet plugin in Wordpress has always been annoying.
Prior to version 2.0, all the comments caught by Akismet Webservice were shown in a single page.
In version 2.0 the comments are displayed [...]

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Technorati is so easily spammed

February 1, 2007

Technorati , the Internet search engine focused on the world of weblogs has probably one of the worst spam filters.
BSNL, one of the popular Internet Service Provider in India, recently introduced 2Mbps bandwidth across all plans.
I wanted to check the experience of the customers/bloggers using BSNL.
A Technorati search for the same (http://technorati.com/search/bsnl) produced these [...]

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Bad Behavior

August 28, 2006

Spam in Blogs is one of the major problem faced by most of the blog publishers. It shouldn’t be confused with splogs (Spam Blogs) which is often used to increase the PageRank of the affiliated sites, get ad impressions from visitors and use the blog as a link outlet to get new sites indexed.
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