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CommentTuesday, September 6, 2005

Blogger Filters Out Spam, But No Comprende

The folks at Blogger have been pretty quick to respond to user criticism over the copious amount of spam blogs (splogs) dirtying up the air at blogspot.com by implementing some "artificial intelligence" to weed out the posers. Some more tweaking may be needed however, if you only speak one language.

After the blogosphere lit up with reports that 60% of blogspot blogs were annoying and useless splogs chocked full of linkspam, Blogger updated the "Next Blog" button on the Blogger Navbar.

"Today, we put some artificial intelligence to work in an effort to make Next Blog' fun and useful again for readers of blogspot blogs. This is the first of several steps we are taking to root out spam blogs from Blogger and blogspot," reads last Friday's post at BloggerBuzz.

And sure enough, upon testing the update, splogs became much less prominent (and maybe nonexistent, but only about 10 presses of the Next Blog button were tested). The next several blogs appeared to be legitimate. The only problem was, few of them were English.

This one looks nice, if you speak Italian. Next on the list, could be interesting you are fluent in Spanish. Or how about, maybe German? Portuguese, Hungarian, or Chinese, anybody?

While multinational all-inclusive type blog-surfing capabilities are well received, perhaps the next AI tweak over at Blogger will include some sort of language preference filter.

News Tags: blogger, Spam, filters, Reports

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