Spam Increased In 2006

Spam made a big comeback in 2006 according to a report from IronPort Systems, a gateway security provider. The report says that the increase in volume was due to advanced image based spam, which is usually ten times larger than text spam. Because of that digital data sent tripled.


To read the full article click here

Looks like spam is here to stay....

It is so strange that the biggest ammount of spam is coming from the same spammers (eg. those "classic" images, or stocks) and still none can catch those fellas :)

Interesting spam seems to becoming a problem with blogs with so called splogs turning up, these blogs loaded with adds seem to have grown and matured now using scrapped content to make them look partially legit, to both unaware viewers and more importantly search engines.

And this is about to create a huge problem as web is expanding more and more.

Think the web in 10 - 20 years. What would be the cost of hardware - bandwidth (for crawling purpose) for a search engine?

I have read somewhere (dont remember the source) that Google is facing this problem from now, as it would be close to impossible to crawl and index so much information :)

Normal working week we post maybe 4 posts to the Venture Skills blog and another 12 among other posts of our clients personal blogs etc. Out of that 16 maybe 4 get scrapped so thats 25% if we are the norm that's 25% of all blogs have there content leeched at least once, don't know how many blogs are out there but I'm guessing a lot now we host a lot of blogs on wordpress.com so lets say the overall leach factor is under 10% that's still a massive amount of splogs.