The Problem that Won’t Go Away
posted in Web/Tech |I hate spam. I always have. But lately, I don’t have to deal with much, which is true for most people. Between server-side bayesian filtering, and client-side filtering, only two or three spam messages gets into my actual inbox everyday. Very nice.
But now, it appears that spam is making it’s horrible way to the web. The first I heard of this was the blogs (on blogger, mostly) designed only to be created to manipulate search engines.
Now, there is a trend in domain name hosting. People will register a domain, test it for traffic, and use it only to deliver Google or Yahoo ads. If that domain can generate one or two dollars more than the cost of the registration, then they keep the domain. If you do this for thousands of domains, this can generate thousands of dollars in revenue.
I imagine that, like bayesian spam filtering, tools like del.icio.us and other collaborative bookmarking tools will mean that people will come across those blogs and domains less and less (and thus not make them cost-effective,) but in the meantime, we have spam to deal with.
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