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Well it looks like the Technorati favorites spammers that Darren and I posted about earlier have developed new ways to compete with the likes of Akismet…
Blog spammers have now made thousands of fake “proxy blogs” to be able to mass-friend one main blog to rank it in the most popular section on the Technorati homepage, ultimately sending the blogs lots of traffic and a few strong backlinks.
Pill spammers are now the 99th, 95th, 83rd, 10th, and even the 3rd most popular blog in the world! I really hope this new idea does not take off like the previous one did, as that would make the top 100 page completely useless. It seems like Technorati has done nothing to thwart these spammers so far and I doubt that they will do anything soon.
When being too famous they forget to maintain their image. That’s what is going to happen not only to Technorati but also Google.
First is to ignore user queries because too many users and too less staffs.
Second is to lack on maintaining the quality of the product and as we know… now change = reducing value. When others proceed, you don’t, = you go backward = you loose.
I’m not active enough to compete with those spammers who only spend time on spamming. I guess most of us don’t have that effort.
So we just have to rely on quality content and good Google ranking for the quality traffic.
Sad? Should not feel sad. I don’t use Technorati.
Cheers,
Binh
Technorati needs some serious competition. For a web 2.0 service, it’s complete un-web 2.0. Usability, design, navigation, implementation are the worse ever!
And now this spam story comes out…Who would have thought, it could get worse.
I would imagine they are at least “planning” to try something. While there has certainly been little to no real action taken, I have a feeling in the next month or so, as the problem get worse, we might see something happen.
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