Security & Privacy
Google Blog ping full of spam
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16 Oct 2006
I guess it was inevitible, but Google’s blog ping service is used by spammers more than anything else. I downloaded a recent copy of their changes.xml file and all I got was 85k worh of spam blogs.
Comments
Jay
November 13, 2006 1:07 PM
They use it for Adsense fraud. Blog and Ping is now the easiest way to get a site indexed.
Vin Klassen
July 17, 2007 3:31 AM
Stop picking on google. Name a ping service that is not being pinged by spammers.
Ellypho
March 14, 2009 8:26 AM
Well Vin, your moma for one. She's far to ugly to be worth pinging :) Love Lyph
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