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

Noticing a pattern here? Paul Kedrosky, Dishwashers, and How Google Eats Its Own Tail : Google has become a snake that too readily consumes its own keyword...

News Flash: Spam Is Bad!

Okay, you probably don’t need to be told that spam is bad. But you might find it interesting to learn about the economy that’s sprung up around blog spam. Good...

Anti-Nofollow FUD

Seems like the concerted effort of the comment spammers to spread FUD about the nofollow initiative is working. Jeremy Zawodny just linked to an anti-nofollow...

return of the crazy person

Someone’s been spamming comment forms on weblogs with an Amazon affiliate link to Meg, Matt and Paul’s book, " We Blog ". You can see examples here ,...

cloudmark

Speaking, obliquely, of clouds: cloudmark is a super cool distributed spam blocking network that integrates with Outlook 2000 and 2002. I’m pleased with it so...

cnet spam tools

I’m kinda perplexed why CNET’s download site lets people post spam tools in their email utilities section. You get descriptions like: AnyMailer is bulk email...

Fight the hoaxes

Fight the hoaxes: Give people real information . If you thought I was livid about spam from friends and co-workers before , you can probably imagine my response...

Yeah, well, when I get

Yeah, well, when I get press coverage , I like to take the opportunity to label myself a spammer. Thanks, Hans!

I forgot to mention that

I forgot to mention that Jon told me a couple of days ago about a site that details Web Ad Blocking on lots of different browsers and platforms. I wasn’t really...

Thank goodness Meg pointed out

Thank goodness Meg pointed out that email from Register.com was actually a useful offer… I had already skimmed it and deleted it as spam before I saw her...

Courtesy of usr/bin/girl, please to

Courtesy of usr/bin/girl , please to be seeing C-SPAM , spam as art. Kind of soothing, really, like a fishtank filled with slowly swimming junk mail.

But enough about me. Today

But enough about me . Today we feature guest peeves. First, from TurlyMing dot com : A short list of things that annoy me, in no particular order: – Failure to...