Tag: Spam

MySpace sues 'spam king'

Tags: MySpace + Spam + Scott Richter

MarcoPolo
Posted by MarcoPolo 1 year 5 months ago; via computerworld.com/action/...

MySpace has filed a lawsuit against the self-proclaimed "spam king" for allegedly blasting the portal with unsolicited e-mails through the use of compromised user accounts.

MySpace also wants a permanent injunction to bar Scott Richter, who has fought with Microsoft Corp. and the state of New York over spam, and his affiliates from using the popular social networking site. Richter runs Optinrealbig.com LLC, an e-mail marketing company in Westminster, Colo.

MySpace, which is owned by News Corp., also accused Richter of running afoul of...

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Wikipedia Adds No Follow to Links

Tags: Wikipedia + Spam + nofollow

Kevom
Posted by Kevom 1 year 5 months ago; via blog.outer-court.com/arch...

The reason given for this is to battle spam links, like those of blackhat search engine optimizers. The change is already active, as you can see by checking outgoing links on Wikipedia’s articles. (In German Wikipedia, this change was already activated for a longer time.)

Such a change in Wikipedia, with is millions of pages – many of which rank excellent in Google and have a high PageRank – has a potentially strong impact on Google search results. Google relies on links to determine its result rankings, and thus huge amount of...

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