Suggestion: Akismet Should Connect With Google
March 6, 2008 by DazzlinDonna · 16 Comments
If you run a blog, you’ve seen spam comments by the thousands arrive in the Akismet spam basket. So many of these are filled with dozens and dozens of links to porn/pills/etc. type sites. I mean seriously, each of the spam comments is just a huge long list of keyword-rich anchor text. Although Akismet catches most of them, I still have to manually mark a few of them as spam each day. This monotonous process got me to thinking. What would make these spammers stop? (If anything). And then I thought…well…what if Akismet shared all of this info with Google and the other search engines?
Watch Matt Cutts Zap a Spammer!
July 29, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 10 Comments
I secretly filmed Matt Cutts when I caught him zapping a search engine spammer into oblivion! Check it out!
When Wikipedia stops being a wiki, what then?
August 28, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 2 Comments
The BBC has an article describing the pending decision that “page edits will no longer be immediately applied to pages but will instead have to be approved by an administrator before they become visible.” If this decision is put into place, it would then make Wikipedia simply another ordinary website, where users have some level of participation, but it’s certainly no longer a true wiki at that point.
Google uncovers spammers hacking sites
August 14, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 1 Comment
Back on July 27, 2006, Neonblitz asked SearchEngineWatch members for help in discerning why a client’s site was showing up with some porn related phrases when searching for the domain name in Google. Those phrases were nowhere to be found on the site, yet it appeared as if they were, when looking at the description in the SERPs.
