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Spamdexing or search engine spamming is the practice of deliberately creating web pages which will be indexed by search engines in order to increase the chance of a website or page being placed close to the beginning of search engine results, or to influence the category to which the page is assigned. Many designers of web pages try to get a good ranking in search engines and design their pages accordingly. The word is a portmanteau of spamming and indexing.
Spamdexing refers exclusively to practices that are dishonest and mislead search and indexing programs to give a page a ranking it does not deserve. "White hat" techniques for making a website indexable by search engines, without misleading the indexing process, are known as search engine optimization (SEO). SEO techniques do not involve deceit.
Search engine spammers, on the contrary, are generally aware that the content that they promote is not very useful or relevant to the ordinary internet surfer. Search engines use a variety of algorithms to determine relevancy ranking. Some of these include determining whether the search term appears in the META keywords tag, others whether the search term appears in the body text of a web page. A variety of techniques are used to spamdex (see below). Many search engines check for instances of spamdexing and will remove suspect pages from their indexes.
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Sportgenic Gets A $10 Million Bump In Funding
Don Reisinger Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:00:18 -0000
Sportgenic on Monday announced that it has secured $10 million in Series B funding from Adams Street Partners, Louie Partners, KPG Ventures, and Greycroft Partners. Originally launched in 2005, Sportgenic competes in the highly targeted world of sports advertising. The company is a sports ad network that aims at connecting some of its major clients [...]
Official TechCrunch50 Program (PDF)
Erick Schonfeld Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:10:35 -0000
Below is the program guide that is being given out to attendees this morning at TechCrunch50. It includes the full schedule, along with all the panels and keynotes, as well as fuller descriptions of the companies presenting.
Announcing The TechCrunch50 Finalists
Erick Schonfeld Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:30:30 -0000
We've gone through more than 1,000 companies to get down to the final 50 (okay, 52) that will present on stage at TechCrunch50 starting later this morning. We will be covering all of the companies as they present onstage or shortly after. But for now, here's a list of all the companies that made it (except the last one, which will be picked from the DemoPit by the audience at the event). Learn more about these companies on CrunchBase by clicking "CB". You can also visit the official TechCrunch50 website to watch their presentations live, or stay tuned right here for coverage throughout the week.
Three DEMO Companies To Keep An Eye On
Jason Kincaid Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:00:11 -0000
This week we're going to see dozens of companies launch new products. Here are a few of the companies presenting this week at DEMO that are showing some strong potential: In most cases, choice is a good thing. But when it comes to online video, the abundance of content available on the web can be overwhelming. ffwd (pronounced fast-foward) deals with this by picking your videos for you. The site uses video meta data as well as user behaviors to create virtual "channels" of video, which are essentially dynamically updated playlists. Rudder shares a lot in common with Mint, a personal finance site that debuted last year at TechCrunch40 (and won the conference's top prize). Both sites present financial data in attractive, intuitive graphs. But Rudder is taking a slightly different approach: while Mint analyzes your past spending habits to help you adjust in the future, Rudder is concerned with telling you how much you have available to spend on a given day. Photrade With image piracy rampant on the web these days, a number of startups have sprung up to help users easily obtain legal pictures. Photrade has a similar goal, but it also manages to help casual photographers make some cash in the process.
All The TC50 Diggs, Feeds, Tweets, and Blog Posts You Can Handle
Erick Schonfeld Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:57:00 -0000
I know where I am going to be checking to see what people are saying about TechCrunch50 this week. The TechCrunch50 Aggregator. It is a site developed by Sean Percival to collect all the Twitters, FreindFeed comments, blog posts, news stories, photos, videos, Diggs,and Techmeme headlines that are tagged "techcrunch50"or "tc50." Even right now, in the middle of the night before the show starts, you can see a picture of the team still unloading boxes, read Robert Scoble lamenting via Twitter that nobody has yet leaked the list of TC50 finalists (ha!), and other various opinions.
RealNetworks Lets You Copy DVDs to Your Hard Drive — And Keep the DRM
Don Reisinger Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:00:37 -0000
As anyone with a lick of tech knowledge knows, ripping a DVD onto your hard drive is, well, frowned upon by the "Powers that be" in the motion picture industry. Realizing that, RealNetworks has launched a new solution called RealDVD, which lets users copy DVDs onto their hard drives without facing legal troubles. Even better, it only takes about 20 minutes to do so. Sounds great, right? There's only one catch: it keeps the DRM. After copying the DVD onto your hard drive, you can't transfer the movie to a friend's computer, so you'll be stuck using your own. Much like iTunes, though, RealDVD lets you authorize five computers to play the movies on the hard drive.
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HBO Nabs Online Talent for Web Series
The cable TV giant angles for Internet viewers and taps notables like lonelygirl15's Jessica Rose and YouTube videobloggers KevJumba and sxePhil.
Microsoft Pushes Digital IDs for Kids Online
Making the Web safer for kids is the idea, but how realistic is the proposal?
Ad Groups Take Aim at Google-Yahoo Deal
Association of National Advertisers is worried about how much market share the two will control.
BBC News - How spammers are targeting blogs - Spammers are turning their attention to weblogs, angering technology analyst Bill Thompson. He calls it flyblogging.
Meta Description: [ Spammers are now turning their attention to weblogs, angering technology analyst Bill Thompson. ]
Big Fractal Tangle: Designing For Lowlifes - Discusses how better, smarter tools are needed to block or remove comment spam in realtime.
Meta Description: [ keeping it real on the semantic web ]
Blog Spam Database - Database of URLs and phrases often used by spammers, along with links to related resources and a discussion forum.
Blogspam.org - Anti-Comment Spam Tactics - Series of steps to stop spam in your blogs.
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Comment Spam: Google's Toxic Waste Dump - Offers a few suggestions to Google and weblog publishers to thwart those who think they can make money spamming blogs.
Internetnews.com - Six Apart Trains Guns on 'Comment Spam' - The blog tools vendor Six Apart plans to roll out an open online authentication system to fight the growing phenomenon of comment spam.
Meta Description: [ The blog tools vendor plans to roll out an open online authentication system
to fight the growing scourge of comment spam.
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Jeremy Zawodny's Blog - Guerilla Tactics Against Blog Comment Spammers - Suggestion that bloggers create posts that target the same spammy phrases that blog spammers want Google to find.
Jeremy Zawodny's Blog: Using mod_rewrite against comment spam bots - Very short tutorial.
Kalsey Consulting Group - Comment Spam Manifesto - Weblogger crystallizes the thoughts of many in declaring a cyberwar on those who inappropriately post in guestbooks and weblogs.
Learning Movable Type: Concerning Spam - Types of spam seen on blogs.
MSNBC - Spammers now clogging blogs, IM - Spam has never been limited to e-mail. But now, commercial pitches are increasingly popping up in online chats, instant messages, cell phones with text messaging and weblog comments.
Meta Description: [ Spam has never been limited to e-mail. But now, commercial pitches are increasingly popping up in online chats, instant messages, cell phones with text messaging — even in Web log feedback. ]
MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse - A centralized blacklist database of blog spam URLs.
No Guestbook Spam Anymore - Offers instructions for webmasters for avoiding and eliminating spam in guestbook.
Meta Description: [ Create NO spam guestbook ]
OJR : Bloggers Declare War on Comment Spam, but Can They Win? - Here's a look at the battle so far.
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raelity bytes - Can't add? Can't post - Simple spamfighting method which assumes comment spam bots can't add.
Simon Willison's Weblog - Solving Comment Spam - Feasible ways to stop or thwart comment spam.
Simon Willison: Blacklisting Comment Spam - One man's efforts to create and maintain a blacklist.
Six Log: Comment Spam - Spammers are abusing comment systems to increase their rank on Google. Here are some steps to take to reduce or eliminate this problem.
Spam Huntress - Spam cleaning for blogs - Spam huntress dissects blogspam.
Typepad Vs. Commentspam - The steps that Typepad has taken in order to rid its users of spam comments.
Meta Description: [ The official blog of TypePad, the hosted blogging service preferred by passionate bloggers, professionals and small businesses. ]
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Wild Mind - Essays about comment spam and how one blogger is fighting it.
Wired - Googlemania: The (Evil) Genius of Comment Spammers - Background of the phenomenon of comment spam and how bloggers responded.
Wired: When the Spam Hits the Blogs - Owners of weblogs have recently noticed that their referral logs have become the newest target for spam.
Meta Description: [ Get in-depth tech news coverage from Wired and read about how it is shaping culture, education, entertainment, communications and technology. ]
Yoz Grahame's Cheerleader: Seven quick tips for a spam-free blog - A list of tips aimed at webloggers to reduce the problem of comment spam.
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