Google Inc."s free BlogSpot service has become a happy hunting ground for spammers cashing in on the easy integration of AdSense advertisements into the "push-button" publishing tool. Over the past few days, the situation has spiraled out of control, prompting outrage from bloggers and third-party blog search providers and an acknowledgement from Google that there"s a "tricky problem" to be solved.
An automated spam blog (splog) attack over the weekend was first flagged by Lockergnome"s Chris Pirillo, who accused Google of hosting a "crapfarm" of fake blogs. "In the past few days, I"ve been inundated with an enormous amount of subscribed search spam for designated keywords. To the tune of hundreds, if not THOUSANDS, of bunk entries," Pirillo railed, arguing that Google must "start putting some resources behind an effort to curb this train wreck."