I was compiling data for my next State of Blogosphere Search blog entry when I discovered that Technorati SERP spam is completely out of control.

Andy Beal is reporting that Yahoo! is search hijacking your Web browser. This is a malware technique where they change the default setting your Web browser to use their search engine as the default.  Yahoo! claims no wrong. A little bit of Yahoo! karma down the drain :-(

Ross Mayfield is poking a little fun at Google who have classified their competititor Socialtext as badware, even though it's not.

Ross brings up an interesting website, StopBadware.org, whose goals are to stop the downloading of badware, a.k.a. malware. They intend on becoming a warehouse of research on malware. Noble causes are worth blogging, let's all reblog them and help them out.

http://www.stopbadware.org/

A couple months ago, I added Elliot Back to my splogger challenge. Elliot is by far the biggest splogger in the blogosphere at the moment. He not only reblogs about 5% of my posts, but he also reblogs blog comment spam left on my blog.  I asked my readers to report his AdSense violation and I guess you did, because Google has disabled AdSense on at least one of his domains.

Update: I noticed that several of Elliot Back, splogger extra-ordinaires, blogs have been banned from AdSense. Totally cool!