Google: Kill Blogspot Already!!!

blogspot have the “comment verification” featur.
is that not enough?
its the same as in here.
i dont se what is the big deal is about, really.

Captcha? And how about blog clients? Kill their market?

Amen, Chris! Even I find a few spam blogs in my vanity feeds. It's frustrating to do no more than flag. Some, though, are Blogger blogs off of Blogspot. Google needs to set up a system to completely eradicate these sites.
If they don't, what should we do?

Yes! If Google would hire a team to go through and delete all the junk blogs that are on there I would be really happy as well. What you get for “pirillo” and “lockergnome”, I get for “web hosting”. It is pretty damn annoying. If they needed me to, I'd even start a list of spamming blogs for them to start out on.

Not only is blogspot full of splogs, but if you have a blogspot blog, it's probably infested with comment spam as well - even if you turn on comments only for blogspot users. Google could be pruning out comment spam pretty easily since all comments are linked to users and each time a spam user is eradicated, all their comments could be too. Except that doesn't happen. It's so hard to manage comments and the blogger backend is so slow that I simply gave up on it.
Worst part is, as far as I can tell, they haven't made any significant improvements over the past 6 months either. What's going on over there?

I was just freaking out yesterday about how clogged my rss feeds for searches I've set up for clients are with Blogspot ****. I think post verification is one good idea. I'd say another would be if search engines could use a slider to determine how high you want the bar to be set for your search results: i.e. “show me only results that have never been flagged as spam, or show me results that have been flagged as spam 3 or fewer times, or show me all results.”
-Marshall Kirkpatrick
http://marshallk.com

Jorn Barger, the old master, has published a link to a search on Technorati that exposes the splogs there.
via AND robot AND wisdom AND “via robot wisdom”
He writes: “The random numbers in the blognames is one giveaway”
(Hanan Cohen)

Actually, it's not as bad as it appears, Chris. Why? because this is most likely caused by just ONE or TWO users. It's that easy: one person downloads the automated blogging tool, clicks a button, and pow - 100,000,000 posts are published. It doesn't take “people,” it only requires a single person..
Yeah, Blogger is messed up. but rather than being the entire service, it's the people promoting automated blogging guides.
- Elliot Lee

Only problem is, visually impaired people would have great difficulty in posting through Blogger. I know a blind lady who blogs through it and has installed it on her comments to stop spammers, but now cannot comment on her own blog. Perhaps all her friends should club together to get her a TypePad account?

I have two Blogspot blogs that don't get any spam comments or anything. I have turned on the word verification when posting comments, but still allow anonymous posts. I have not had any problems at all.
http://www.frenetictech.com
http://www.freneticphoto.com
Blogger is still the easiest free service to use for creating a blog…they aren't going to kill it.

I started getting Spam comment on my Blog on Blogspot. Anybody else seen this?

Please calm down. Your post is so alarmist, and as most people have pointed out, you have no foundation for your call for Google to pull down blogspot. Should MSFT pull Windows Vista because it needs to go through additional iterations?

Chris, Please forgive whatever role that PubSub may have in not being able to detect and clean up this mess. We're working on it but it is not an easy problem.
In the meantime, the only thing I can offer is a suggestion that you filter blogspot.com out of your PubSub results. To do so, add the following to any subscription query:
AND NOT SOURCE:blogspot.com
Thus, if you had a subscription to “Chris Pirillo” your blogspot-free subscription would be:
“Chris Pirillo” AND NOT SOURCE:blogspot.com
I hope that helps.
bob wyman

Amen. Commenters came up with the same thing - CAPTCHA for every post, not just comments - on this post:
http://www.geektronica.com/2005-06-30-the-strange-world-of-blogspot-spam-blogs

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Well done for writing about this Chris cos recently
i've noticed all these spam / **** 'blogs ' clogging
up my google searches. I didn't realise it was a blogspot
problem to begin with I just thought where do all these
pretend / **** ' blogs ' come from ? The new Google Search
Engine is practically useless thanks the these spammers
but thanks for shedding some light on the subject
TR

what is lockergnome and pubsub?

Some suggestions to Blogger
I just thought Blogger shall improve her features, I had no idea the situation is getting so worse… lament…

They have captchas and the ability to require people to log in first before posting.
They're just not turned on by default.
I set up a new blog yesterday and forgot to turn on captchas and there was a spam within minutes, literally.
Also they're requiring captchas I think when you first sign up to make a new blog.
Problem is captchas are easily beaten by someone with a budget of thousands of dollars to spam. Just hire a graphics expert. to write a bot to read the captchas.
They could require credit cards as verification but people would be afraid of being scammed…

The reality is that all blogs are splogs. That is to say, all blogs spam major search engines because of their high level of linking and constant updating. Google has a smart business model, and the blogspot domain doesn't really hurt their brand (you may have noticed that their profits are up 7-fold this quarter), anymore than any other blog could or would. Plus, if blogspot is removed, my blog disappears, and it's an award-winning blog that's been featured in major publications. I'm scanning for Blogger blogspot complainers from this point forward. All future complainers will have their links removed from my blog. If your PageRank drops, too bad. You don't deserve to capitalize on a domain that you are demanding be put out of existence.
Cheers,
John Mudd
Inside Real Estate Journal
Best Real Estate Blog
The Peacock Award
http://insiderealestatejournal.blogspot.com

No, my friend, while Google may share much of the responsibility for the splogging problem by being late to the party with captchas and other deterrents, the root of the problem is the spammers themselves.

The posts haven't bother me yet. I filter out my results. Also - why are people calling this “spam”. Spam implies an invasion of space. This is not “spam” (albeit ****) because it doesn't come to you - you have to go to it, or have an aggregator that let's it in. I don't have either.

Meh. There is a whole lot **** coming offa Blogspot, and Google definitley needs to step it up.
But theres definitley actual people out there… and free hosting w/o ads of anykind, blog or not, is freaking hard to come across. Some people can afford the time and money to host from home, or to hire one of the coroporate services for their blog… but not everyone can!
I say google wipes out blogger, and starts a system where you hafta use a cell phone to get an account. It works for GMail, there really isnt spam coming out of it.
But yeh, the blogger splog problem is getting beyond ridiculous.

If this is a petition, consider it signed by me! You are sooooo on target.

I think when you put down blogspot you get alot of spam from it. Some people need the publicity, do you? How would you like to have captcha verification for every post you made. It really makes the honest blogger's life hard. I am no newbie I've been on blogger since the beginning. When I hear alot of you guys who came after ranting about blogger, I have to ask, what's in it for you? Everyone is suffering from spam, its all over the internet. Funny I don't get any spam at my blog? Wonder why that is?

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Yeah lets blame it on the inocent users! That would be the day! What a fantastic idea man! I really hate updating my blog now! Thanks a buch!
I use to post 200 photos per day. Now I have to type 200 titles AND 200 crapcha!!! Thank you so much! Thats about 20 flapcha per visitor for me.
English isn't my native language so the sdaf2342w434w give me a headace.
I've stared a new “1 post per day maximum” blog with text only to get the same treatment after 3 months.
I keep a blog about blogger scripts, it's content is much better as your spam log. All you do is complain about your lack of succes. What a lie. Shame on you!
My blog is much more related to the blogspot topic as yours but some how this page has 10 times more comments as my blogspot has unique visitors.
So you are doing far more SEO spamming as the rest of us put together.
Or are you going to pretend this rant is quality content? You probably live in the US and think the rest of the world is 3 people who are both inferior to you ubermensh.
-Categories for blogger!

Personally, I think everyone who whines about “Splogs” needs to wake up and get a life. I am sick and tired of busting my ***, trying to play “Google Games” only to see my hard work and dedication get me nowhere. I've jumped through the hoops. Writing articles, getting reciprocal links, having high quality content, yadda, yadda, yadda. For what? To not even grace Google's search results. To have a whopping $7 in my adsense account. For all of those out there who think everyone who has top spots is “playing fair, playing by the rules.” you really need a cold shower and some coffee. So, as the cliche goes, can't beat'em, join'em. You can ***** about Splogs all you want. For me, I'll take advantage of them while I can, and earn a few thousand while I'm at it. There is no such thing as a level playing field online anymore. The big boys have monopolized everything. If I have to cheat to cheat the cheaters than so be it. Long live Gen-X and our neverending pessimism. Fact is everyone ******* about tele-marketers, guess what, they wouldn't keep making those calls if it wasn't profitable. Everyone complains about SPAM, but let's face it, how much stuff did you buy from SPAM. If it wasn't profitable it wouldn't have been done. Now, there are SPLOGS. I say don't fight it man. Join it.

Personally, I think everyone who whines about “Splogs” needs to wake up and get a life. I am sick and tired of busting my ***, trying to play “Google Games” only to see my hard work and dedication get me nowhere. I've jumped through the hoops. Writing articles, getting reciprocal links, having high quality content, yadda, yadda, yadda. For what? To not even grace Google's search results. To have a whopping $7 in my adsense account. For all of those out there who think everyone who has top spots is “playing fair, playing by the rules.” you really need a cold shower and some coffee. So, as the cliche goes, can't beat'em, join'em. You can ***** about Splogs all you want. For me, I'll take advantage of them while I can, and earn a few thousand while I'm at it. There is no such thing as a level playing field online anymore. The big boys have monopolized everything. If I have to cheat to cheat the cheaters than so be it. Long live Gen-X and our neverending pessimism. Fact is everyone ******* about tele-marketers, guess what, they wouldn't keep making those calls if it wasn't profitable. Everyone complains about SPAM, but let's face it, how much stuff did you buy from SPAM. If it wasn't profitable it wouldn't have been done. Now, there are SPLOGS. I say don't fight it man. Join it.

I agree with you the way you view the issue. I remember Jack London once said everything positive has a negative side; everything negative has positive side. It is also interesting to see different viewpoints & learn useful things in the discussion.

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Suggestion, Google? As bold as this might sound, 触摸�you should institute an authentication system - a captcha of sorts - for every single post that gets sent through your Blogger service. This means that there's no more easy rides for the idiots out there who are killing your baby and the blogosphere. The user logs in, enters their post, then has to jump through a captcha hoop - much like commenters have to do on Blogger.com these days. It's a simple suggestion, and

[...] a corollary to splogs are spings, which are ping spam or spam sent from spam blogs or splogs.  it’s important to emphasize the reasons or motivations behind splogs: The purpose is to increase the PageRank of the affiliated sites, get ad impressions from visitors, and/or use the blog as a link outlet to get new sites indexed.  many people have chimed in on splogs including pirillo and mark cuban.  others seem to think that splogs linking to them is a sign of growth. [...]

Thanks to comment captcha, not one of my blogs has experienced comment spam - and I have several legitimate blogs on that service.

http://addh.blogspot.com/
http://britannia.blogspot.com/
http://uoweb.blogspot.com/
http://uoshots.blogspot.com/

If Blogger were to initiate captcha for posting, that might help some in eliminating sblogs. Don’t hate BlogSpot, Chris, hate the spammers. I agree, though, Google needs to get on the stick and clean house with regard to these guys.

[...] a corollary to splogs are spings, which are ping spam or spam sent from spam blogs or splogs. it’s important to emphasize the reasons or motivations behind splogs: The purpose is to increase the PageRank of the affiliated sites, get ad impressions from visitors, and/or use the blog as a link outlet to get new sites indexed. many people have chimed in on splogs including pirillo and mark cuban. others seem to think that splogs linking to them is a sign of growth. how are splogs created anyway? there is software that can automate blogs, pings, and the like. the software releases a bot that crawls the blogosphere and post-jacks content, copies it, and creates a splog of its own. interestingly, the post title is always used in the splog. this is important to remember when i discuss splog baits. the folks at ebiquity have done amazing research into the splogosphere. they have studied weblogs data and innovatively created a splog bait. this bait was picked-up by many splogs shortly after the post was published. this splog bait contains jibberish — garbage — but the text has key words that rank highly on the adwords bid tool, which can be found here and the postitle in the splog is the exact same is it is in the authentic post title. this is one way to find out who has splogged you. here’s the conclusion from the ebiquity study: [...]