Technorati reports on the state of the spamosphere

Dave Sifry of Technorati has posted a new State of the Blogosphere report. Besides other things, it talks about spam in the blogosphere. Here are a few interesting facts:

– A new weblog is created about every second.

– About 9% of new blogs are spam

– 60% of pings are from known spam sources

– Technorati blocks these spam pings before the even become splogs

Then Sifry gets carried away creating even more new Sp-words, and while he notes that “the high level of interesting, original content being created greatly outweighs the fake or duplicate content listed on splogs”, this still leaves the question open since the old State of the Blogosphere report: what’s their spam detection rate and can they even estimate it objectively?

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