08/20/2005 - 11:56:23 PM | Print Friendly Version
SPLOG REPORTER LAUNCHED TO CYBER-APPLAUSE New Site Created to Monitor Spam Blog Quantity and Improve Blogosphere
Blogosphere: Aug. 17, 2005—The call to clean up the blogosphere was answered today. Splog Reporter is a new Web site that encourages good-willed bloggers to take the front line in the flight against spam blogs, or splogs.
Splog Reporter allows users to submit splogs they encounter to its database. The data is complied, confirmed and made available to search engines that wish to optimize search results for their users. Ultimately, the users who submit splog to Splog Reporter benefit from the accumulation of this data through search engine improvements.
“The idea behind Splog Reporter is simple, but there is a great need for a monitoring process in the blogosphere,” said Frank Gruber, creator of Splog Reporter. “Splog Reporter functions like the a blog-community’s trash can, where good-willed bloggers can come together to combat the existence of splog. The response has been encouraging.”
Within its first 24 hours of existence, Splog Reporter received an estimated 1000 hits.