Rogers Cadenhead has a new ingenious technique for detecting comment spam that he calls comment flak.

http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/3044/detecting-weblog-spam-comment-flak

Thanks to Sterling Camden for the link [play tag with me].

John Koetsier is reporting that Technorati cleaned out 1000s of splogs from their index, causing many blogs to jump in rank.

Thanks to Sterling Camden for the link [play tag with me].

PlagiarismToday is reporting that Bitacle has removed all their Google ads. I'm seeing the same thing. I wonder if their AdSense account was terminated?

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PlagiarismToday/~3/38252762/

For the last few months, kbcafe.com has been banned from Yahoo! I've been in touch with several people at Yahoo! and filed twice for re-inclusion. Yahoo! refuses to tell me why I'm banned, but they are quick to promote their association with Jeremy Shoemaker, a spammer. I find this situation very troublesome.

I remember a year ago, I was having problem indexing Rmail in the Google index. I dropped Matt Cutts a comment and he was quickly able to get me indexed and moving in the right direction. Now, I'm having problems with Yahoo! and after several months, not one Yahoo! employee has been able to help me in anyway.

I guess this is the difference between Google and Yahoo! Google employees are really helpful and Yahoo! promotes spammers. Awesome!

PlagiarismToday has an update on their fight to get Google to de-index Bitacle.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PlagiarismToday/~3/36500233/

Spamland is a soon to be released cartoon based on the incomprehensibility of spam emails.

It took hours for the domain squatters to monetize Cory Lidle's accident. They even bought AdWords.

http://www.corylidlerip.com/

The most common attempt to phish information out of me is the fraudulent email from PayPal where the user has to update some information at PayPal, but where the URL to click thru and login to PayPal is faked. Sample shown. When hover over the click here hyperlink, the target domain is an IP address and not PayPal.

I get this email dozens of times per day. Gmail seems incapable of filtering this completely obvious fraud.  Seems pretty trivial to me and a major failing of Google's.

Thanks Coolz0r! [play tag with me]

Eric Chien: Over the weekend, the Google blog was hacked and someone made a fake post stating Google was discontinuing their Click-To-Call service. A few weeks ago, Randy Charles Morin's blog was reportedly hacked using a new unknown and unpatched exploit by Jason Schramm known as the Host Overflow Application eXception. Now, some people are putting one and one together and assuming Google's blog was hacked via the unpatched Host Overflow Application eXception.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/about-that-fake-post.html

These three splogs were sent to me in the last few days. The links are NOFOLLOW, so no Google juice is provided. Each has AdSense which you can report by click on the Ads by Google footer/header in the ad units, then Send your thoughts, then Report Violation.

• http://weblog-pla.net/adsense
• http://blagsta.com/blogging-for-money/
• http://xxxmaster.biz/