Getting News Corp Blog Spam
December 20th, 2005 by atari
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Posted Dec 19, 6:55 PM | Edit Comment | Delete Comment | View Post
As if doesn’t have enough money to spend on more legitimate forms of advertising ?! (And raising his ...) Interestingly, the IP does to Australia…
December 20th, 2005 at 11:23 am
Word on the ‘nets is that comment spammers have been spamming with well-known URLs in order to break blacklists, make it harder for Google to decrease the PageRank of spam sites, and in general make life more difficult for reasonable people. I have seen a number of similar comments, at least one of which linked to Google!
December 20th, 2005 at 2:39 pm
yeah we’ve gotten a lot of those too but it was just too hard not to poke fun at the one with a news corp link..
but why does it make it harder to decrease the pagerank of spam sites when only “legitimate” links are included? because it makes it harder to discern between the two?
(and btw, news corp only does have a 7, which isn’t that great…)
December 21st, 2005 at 6:03 pm
I believe that part of the way that Google determines PageRank is by evaluting both the sites you link to and the sites that link to you. Thus, a blog with both normal spam comments and theses “fake” ones would either cause both the PageRank of normal spam sites and NewsCorp to be depressed, or would cause both PageRanks to increase slightly. Of course, these small increases or decreases could have minimal effect on actual PageRank since nobody outside of Google actually knows the PageRank algorithm.
Also, Dougal Campbell suggests that the target is not Google, but Bayesian comment filters:
December 5th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
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