Archive for the Splogs Category

Feed reader and exclude by source - Posted 16:47 Saturday 2 Jan 2010

Example:
I subscribe to a tag feed or blog search and the tag/search term is ‘green-rabbits’. I know spammers use this tag which is why I’m following it but then I discover that you also use that tag, and so do a dozen other blogs that I know are good, not spam. So what I want [...]

Blogger: a help-free site - Posted 14:41 Sunday 28 Sep 2008

I find yet another blogspot blog stealing my posts. I login and decide to see if Google have yet changed their absolutely stupid rules regarding stolen content displayed on their domain:
See the Help link?

Takes you here:

http://help.blogger.com/bin/static.py?page=start.cs

See the Help Center link? Takes you here:

So not only do Google help spammers and sploggers by making it just [...]

Theft in Kalamazoo continues - Posted 12:18 Sunday 14 Oct 2007

I blogged this last week because the owner of that site was stealing other people’s content. Reminder of the whois:
Registrant:
Nicholas Weinberg
8548 old oak circle
Kalamazoo, Michigan 49009
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: IDEAHUSTLE.COM
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Nicholas Weinberg of Kalamazoo, Michigan - Posted 14:36 Tuesday 9 Oct 2007

ideahustle.com is a splog. It is stealing content and earning the blog owner (AND google) money from other people’s work.
WHOIS for ideahustle.com
Administrative Contact:
Weinberg, Nicholas we6936@netzero.net
8548 old oak circle
Kalamazoo, Michigan 49009
United [...]