Wednesday, January 25, 2006

What Are These Blogs??

sunglasses retail is the second 'nonsense' blog that I've come across. It has pseudorandom-seeming text that looks as if it was actually written by a person, but may be a pastiche of found text, generated automatically.


  • Secret coded messages for spies? criminals? terrorists?

  • Clearinghouses for boilerplate 'random' spam text?

  • The emergence of a 'self-blogging' artificial intelligence?



A sample:

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UPDATE: Clues here? A less-random looking form of splog? It doesn't appear to be a splog because all the links point to other nonsense blogs. They're not hosting bogus links to real blogs or sites to boost their Google ratings, which is the purpose of a splog.

A good tech paper on splog detection here.

with a good definition of 'web spam':

“Any deliberate human action meant to trigger an
unjustifiably favorable relevance or importance for some
page, considering the page’s true value.”

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