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How Much of Twitter is Spam? - Popular Mechanics

Twitter is rotten with spambots. But just how many of a person's followers are frauds? We counted our own one-by-one to find out.

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january 2012 by fjordaan

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Antique Spam | Futility Closet

Martha Turner didn’t exist. Her appeal was contrived and arranged by Joseph Underwood, one of about 250 letter-writing impostors who plagued England’s wealthy in the 1830s. Underwood had invented and written Martha’s letter in a woman’s hand, and he forged corroborating messages from her supposed seducer and from a clergyman supporting her story.

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november 2011 by fjordaan

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The Content Farm

Informative articles about every topic, written by people with a passing knowledge.

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february 2011 by fjordaan

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Why You Should Never Search For Free WordPress Themes in Google or Anywhere Else | WordPress, Multisite and BuddyPress plugins, themes, news and help – WPMU.org

A few months ago I wrote about WordPress Security. Now, armed only with the words “free WordPress themes,” builtBackwards’ Theme Authenticity Checker Plugin and Donncha O Caoimh’s Exploit Scanner, I’m going to take a look through the first page of Google to see just how safe pages ranking for “Free WordPress Themes” are.

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january 2011 by fjordaan

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Marco.org - Google's decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search

I’ve been frustrated as well by Google’s apparent defeat by spam. It’s not a sudden issue — it’s been gradually worsening for a few years. When I ask Google for something, it’s usually from these types of queries:

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january 2011 by fjordaan

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Three's a Trend: The Decline of Google Search Quality - Anil Dash

Now, is all this anecdotal evidence reliable? Perhaps not. What is worth noting now is that, half a decade after so many people began unquestioningly modifying their sites to serve Google's needs better, there may start to be enough critical mass for the pendulum to swing back to earlier days, when Google modified its workings to suit the web's existing behaviors.

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january 2011 by fjordaan

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How to Diagnose and Remove the WordPress Pharma Hack

The WordPress pharma hack quietly exploits your highest-ranking and most valuable pages by overriding the title tag and by inserting spammy links into the page content. Interestingly, the modified title tag and spammy links are only visible to search engines.

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october 2010 by fjordaan

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The Google Sewage Factory, In Action: The Chocomize Story

Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt has quite famously been on record many times talking about how the web is full of garbage. It’s a cesspool out there, he’s said. Today, a short fast look at how his own company pollutes the web.

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august 2010 by fjordaan

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Dr. Laura, Associated Content and the Googledammerung — Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard

But the writer of Associated Content’s Dr. Laura post is bypassing such unprofitable concerns. He chooses his words to please neither himself nor his readers. They’re strictly for Google’s algorithm. The algorithm is supposed to be able to see through this sort of manipulation, to spit out the worthless gruel so it can serve its human users something more savory. But it looks like the algorithm has lost its sense of taste.

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august 2010 by fjordaan

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Dishwashers, and How Google Eats Its Own Tail

Over the weekend I tried to buy a new dishwasher. Being the fine net-friendly fellow that I am, I began Google-ing for information. And Google-ing. and Google-ing. As I tweeted frustratedly at the tend of the failed exercise, "To a first approximation, the entire web is spam when it comes to appliance reviews".

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january 2010 by fjordaan

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Spam : Elliott Burford

An ongoing project illustrating the titles of emails found in your spam/junk box.

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may 2009 by fjordaan

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Phone Call Comments

This is a user supplied database of phone numbers of telemarketers, non-profit organizations, charities, political surveyors, SCAM artists, and other companies that don't leave messages, disconnect once you answer, ignore the Do-Not-Call List regulations, and simply interrupt your day.

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april 2009 by fjordaan

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Can Twitter Survive What is About to Happen to It? | Twine

I am worried about Twitter. I love it the way it is today. But it's about to change big time, and I wonder whether it can survive the transition.

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march 2009 by fjordaan

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Markov chain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Markov processes can also be used to generate superficially "real-looking" text given a sample document: they are used in a variety of recreational "parody generator" software. These processes are also used by spammers to inject real-looking hidden paragraphs into unsolicited email in an attempt to get these messages past spam filters.

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january 2009 by fjordaan

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Honeypot Captcha

I was thinking about alternative ways to block comment spam the other day and it occurred to me that there’s potentially a simpler solution than the Invisible Captcha approach I wrote about.

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february 2008 by fjordaan

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Email Blacklist Check - See if your server is blacklisted

This test will check a mail server IP address against 147 DNS based email blacklists. (Commonly called Realtime blacklist, DNSBL or RBL). If your mail server has been blacklisted, some email you send may not be delivered. Email blacklists are a common way of reducing spam. If you don't know your mail server's address, start with a MX Lookup.

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december 2007 by fjordaan

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Spam is That Which We Don't Do

Each statement in the following list has been offered as proof that some unsolicited bulk email messages were not spam or that a service provider dislikes spam or spammers.

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december 2007 by fjordaan

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