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noun an electronic update sent to a central server or website by a splog (spam blog) rather than a genuine blog when the splog is updated [a blend of spam and ping: the latter representing the imagined sound of an electronic update arriving]. See also splog
noun an electronic update sent to a central server or website by a splog (spam blog) rather than a genuine blog when the splog is updated [a blend of spam and ping: the latter representing the imagined sound of an electronic update arriving]. See also splog
Just as e-mail is overcome by spam, the blogosphere is sullied by splogs and spings. The influx of spam-related blogs accounts for nine percent of new blogs (ClickZ News)
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Sping is short for "spam ping", and is related to pings from blogs using trackbacks, called trackback spam. Pings are messages sent from blog and publishing tools to a centralized network service (a ping server) providing notification of newly published posts or content. Spings, or ping spam, are pings that are sent from spam blogs, or are sometimes multiple pings in a short interval from a legitimate source, often tens or hundreds per minute, due to misconfigured software, or a wish to make the content coming from the source appear fresh.
Spings, like spam blogs, are increasingly problematic for the blogging community. Estimates from Weblogs.com and Matt Mullenweg's Ping-o-Matic! service have put the sping rate—the percentage of pings that are sent from spam blogs—well above 50%. A study commissioned by Ebiquity Group and conducted by the University of Maryland in 2006 confirmed that these numbers are around 75%.[1] Since then, growth in sping has slowed such that the portion of pings that are spam has dropped to 53%.[2]
The term was popularized by David Sifry from Technorati in his February 2006 State of the Blogosphere report, but was coined initially in September 2005 by a French SEO blogger, Sébastien Billard, in an article titled "Spam 2.0".[3]
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References
- ^ Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, and Anupam Joshi. "SVMs for the Blogosphere: Blog Identification and Splog Detection study". http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/get/a/publication/213.pdf. Retrieved 2007-06-18.
- ^ Pranam Kolari. "Pings, Spings, Splogs and the Splogosphere: 2007 Updates". http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2007/02/01/pings-spings-splogs-and-the-splogosphere-2007-updates/. Retrieved 2007-06-19.
- ^ (French) Original post: Sébastien Billard. "Spam 2.0". http://s.billard.free.fr/referencement/?2005/09/29/146-spam-20. Retrieved 2007-06-18.
External links
- As Blogs Grow, So Does Spam, Christopher Heun, Internet Week, April 21, 2006
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