Comments on: RSS Spam Cometh? http://gigaom.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/ Tracking the Internet Evolution Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:22:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Unfiltered » Blog Archive » Interesting Wordpress Hack http://gigaom.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-878555 Unfiltered » Blog Archive » Interesting Wordpress Hack Thu, 15 May 2008 21:14:26 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-878555 [...] Wordpress Hack May 15th, 2008 They attack the RSS feed rather than the actual post (RSS Spam Cometh? - GigaOM details how the spammers have moved to RSS since that’s what people are using), tagging the [...] [...] WordPress Hack May 15th, 2008 They attack the RSS feed rather than the actual post (RSS Spam Cometh? - GigaOM details how the spammers have moved to RSS since that’s what people are using), tagging the [...]

]]> By: TechCrunch » Web 2.0 This Week (July 3 - 9) http://gigaom.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18148 TechCrunch » Web 2.0 This Week (July 3 - 9) Sun, 22 Jan 2006 05:06:06 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18148 <p>[...] 3. Om Malik on the Power of RSS and the emergence of RSS spam [...]</p> [...] 3. Om Malik on the Power of RSS and the emergence of RSS spam [...]

]]> By: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » The Dark Side of Technorati Tags http://gigaom.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18147 Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » The Dark Side of Technorati Tags Tue, 02 Aug 2005 14:49:37 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18147 [...] e I lose the plot - I tag my post, Technorati benefits, and despite all that, my tags help spammers who clog my RSS readers gain more readers. That’s absolutely rotten! So essentially [...] [...] e I lose the plot - I tag my post, Technorati benefits, and despite all that, my tags help spammers who clog my RSS readers gain more readers. That’s absolutely rotten! So essentially [...]

]]> By: Trotz.com http://gigaom.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18146 Trotz.com Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:22:11 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18146 <strong>AOL launches MyAOL beta, Feedster to do RSS search</strong> Om Malik today takes note of AOL's new partnership with Feedster for their new 'MyAOL' - as he notes, Yahoo must be thinking that's soooo 1999 ;-). Interesting to see a tool like this on AOL; bringing RSS closer to... AOL launches MyAOL beta, Feedster to do RSS search

Om Malik today takes note of AOL’s new partnership with Feedster for their new ‘MyAOL’ - as he notes, Yahoo must be thinking that’s soooo 1999 ;-). Interesting to see a tool like this on AOL; bringing RSS closer to…

]]> By: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » AOL launches MyAOL beta, Feedster to do RSS search http://gigaom.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18145 Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » AOL launches MyAOL beta, Feedster to do RSS search Thu, 28 Jul 2005 04:10:44 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18145 [...] he new site will also allow folks to subscribe and read RSS feeds. This is also a good day for RSS spammers, who can now find gullible clickers amongst the AOL hordes. Going back to that ste [...] [...] he new site will also allow folks to subscribe and read RSS feeds. This is also a good day for RSS spammers, who can now find gullible clickers amongst the AOL hordes. Going back to that ste [...]

]]> By: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » Scoble discovers RSS Spam as well… finally http://gigaom.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18144 Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » Scoble discovers RSS Spam as well… finally Sun, 10 Jul 2005 05:24:43 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18144 [...] e is talking about RSS Spam. Finally, the RSS godfathers are paying attention to something that has been annoying me for months now. In Asides Posted Saturday, July 9, 2005 at 10 [...] [...] e is talking about RSS Spam. Finally, the RSS godfathers are paying attention to something that has been annoying me for months now. In Asides Posted Saturday, July 9, 2005 at 10 [...]

]]> By: TechBlog http://gigaom.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18143 TechBlog Sat, 09 Jul 2005 13:59:22 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18143 <strong>Playing catch-up with tech</strong> As I mentioned Thursday, the attacks in London took me a away from blogging on tech. Let's play some catch-up. Follow the bouncing links! A followup to an earlier post: Google releases its Firefox toolbar. There's already a Trojan related... Playing catch-up with tech

As I mentioned Thursday, the attacks in London took me a away from blogging on tech. Let’s play some catch-up. Follow the bouncing links! A followup to an earlier post: Google releases its Firefox toolbar. There’s already a Trojan related…

]]> By: TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Web 2.0 This Week (July 3 -9) http://gigaom.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18142 TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Web 2.0 This Week (July 3 -9) Fri, 08 Jul 2005 21:34:27 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18142 [...] eblogs, a growing number of which are purchasing domains for branding purposes.” 3. Om Malik on the Power of RSS and the emergence of RSS spam “RSS is to the written word, what [...] [...] eblogs, a growing number of which are purchasing domains for branding purposes.” 3. Om Malik on the Power of RSS and the emergence of RSS spam “RSS is to the written word, what [...]

]]> By: Fergus Burns http://gigaom.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18141 Fergus Burns Fri, 08 Jul 2005 17:02:09 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18141 Om, that is an issue, and will continue to be an issue as RSS develops and evolves. But, we at Nooked also realize that people DO want RSS feeds for marketing, for coupons, for deals, and that is what we are working on with marketing firms: how to do RSS in a smart way that doesn’t devolve into SPAM We also have a search engine for RSS feeds on offers, news, deals and coupons which is SPAM proof due to the community filtering we use regards fergus Om, that is an issue, and will continue to be an issue as RSS develops and evolves.

But, we at Nooked also realize that people DO want RSS feeds for marketing, for coupons, for deals, and that is what we are working on with marketing firms: how to do RSS in a smart way that doesn’t devolve into SPAM

We also have a search engine for RSS feeds on offers, news, deals and coupons which is SPAM proof due to the community filtering we use

regards
fergus

]]> By: Anand Jain http://gigaom.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18140 Anand Jain Tue, 05 Jul 2005 19:28:39 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18140 You could use my FooBar Search Alerts (http://www.ypjain.com/notify) to monitor specific sites or RSS/Atom feeds for certain keywords or queries. It doesnt monitor the entire web (like Technorati and the like). It just monitors any page or feed that you want it to and will send you links to actual entries if it finds them in the feed. You could use my FooBar Search Alerts (http://www.ypjain.com/notify) to monitor specific sites or RSS/Atom feeds for certain keywords or queries. It doesnt monitor the entire web (like Technorati and the like). It just monitors any page or feed that you want it to and will send you links to actual entries if it finds them in the feed.

]]> By: Danny Sullivan http://gigaom.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18139 Danny Sullivan Tue, 05 Jul 2005 11:25:55 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18139 RSS spam isn't new, but it certainly seems to be growing. And will it overtake the industry? Yeah. Web based search engines have been fighting spam for nearly 10 years now. The constantly have had to evolve their defense. Link analysis is just now giving over to personalized search as a way to prevent this. RSS search engines I've used often demonstrate bad textual-retrieval relevancy to begin with. Then add to that spam, they've got a long slog ahead of them. Making matters worse, the fact that several of them work off of taking whatever is fed to them, rather than trying to only include the "best," leaves them even more open to being spammed. RSS spam isn’t new, but it certainly seems to be growing. And will it overtake the industry? Yeah. Web based search engines have been fighting spam for nearly 10 years now. The constantly have had to evolve their defense. Link analysis is just now giving over to personalized search as a way to prevent this. RSS search engines I’ve used often demonstrate bad textual-retrieval relevancy to begin with. Then add to that spam, they’ve got a long slog ahead of them. Making matters worse, the fact that several of them work off of taking whatever is fed to them, rather than trying to only include the “best,” leaves them even more open to being spammed.

]]> By: David Sifry http://gigaom.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18137 David Sifry Tue, 05 Jul 2005 07:35:36 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18137 Om, Technorati has a whole group of people who are dedicated to identifying and eliminating spam from our indexes, both algorithmically, heuristically, and at last resort, via human means. We've been working with the industry on fighting spam, and organized the first web 2.0 spam squashing summit. Things are still early, and will take some time to shake out. However, I like to rely on what my friend Cory Doctorow said: "All healthy ecosystems have parasites." So the question is not, "will there be spam?" but only, "will this be managable, or will this be the red tide of spam that overtakes the industry?" I for one believe that the former is true. But to be perfectly honest, only time will tell. Dave Om,

Technorati has a whole group of people who are dedicated to identifying and eliminating spam from our indexes, both algorithmically, heuristically, and at last resort, via human means. We’ve been working with the industry on fighting spam, and organized the first web 2.0 spam squashing summit.

Things are still early, and will take some time to shake out. However, I like to rely on what my friend Cory Doctorow said: “All healthy ecosystems have parasites.” So the question is not, “will there be spam?” but only, “will this be managable, or will this be the red tide of spam that overtakes the industry?” I for one believe that the former is true. But to be perfectly honest, only time will tell.

Dave

]]> By: Josh Hallett http://gigaom.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18135 Josh Hallett Tue, 05 Jul 2005 03:47:53 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18135 I first started to notice spam via RSS back in January of this year: http://www.hyku.com/blog/archives/000239.html My post ended up starting a conversation with Bob Wyman of PubSub, he shared his thoughts in what they are doing: http://hyku.com/blog/archives/000251.html There are now some Technorati/Feedster searches that produce 86% spam on the first page alone: http://hyku.com/blog/archives/000497.html A few of the PubSub searches I monitor are now useless since the majority of the results are spam. Now comes the fun of Tag spam: http://hyku.com/blog/archives/000653.html Sorry for all the links, but it's something I have been following for a while. I first started to notice spam via RSS back in January of this year:

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My post ended up starting a conversation with Bob Wyman of PubSub, he shared his thoughts in what they are doing:

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There are now some Technorati/Feedster searches that produce 86% spam on the first page alone:

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A few of the PubSub searches I monitor are now useless since the majority of the results are spam. Now comes the fun of Tag spam:

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Sorry for all the links, but it’s something I have been following for a while.

]]> By: Randy Charles Morin http://gigaom.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18133 Randy Charles Morin Mon, 04 Jul 2005 19:59:28 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18133 I think you could eliminate most of the SPAM blogs by removing all blogs hosted at blogspot.com or created with Wordpress blogware ;) I think you could eliminate most of the SPAM blogs by removing all blogs hosted at blogspot.com or created with WordPress blogware ;)

]]> By: The Importance of... http://gigaom.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18132 The Importance of... Mon, 04 Jul 2005 19:04:58 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18132 <strong>Om Malik on RSS Spam</strong> Om Malik on RSS spam clogging up places like Technorati, PubSub and Feedster (RSS Spam Cometh?).It has been working well, but lately I have observed a few disturbing signs that can quickly turn RSS into yet another technology to avoid.... Om Malik on RSS Spam

Om Malik on RSS spam clogging up places like Technorati, PubSub and Feedster (RSS Spam Cometh?).It has been working well, but lately I have observed a few disturbing signs that can quickly turn RSS into yet another technology to avoid….

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18122 Om Malik Mon, 04 Jul 2005 16:47:33 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/07/03/rss-spam-cometh/#comment-18122 i hope so, i wonder if this is problem that can be licked. not sure how though? i hope so, i wonder if this is problem that can be licked. not sure how though?

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