Comments on: Cuil Spamming? Not Really. http://www.alhankeser.com/cuil-comment-spamming/ World traveler. Biker. SEO. Observer. Early adopter. Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:37:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andrew http://www.alhankeser.com/cuil-comment-spamming/comment-page-1/#comment-365 Andrew Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:13:48 +0000 http://www.alhankeser.com/?p=215#comment-365 A more likely reason for this spam is that linking to some legitimate domains makes it hard to automate a system that recognises some pattern in the formatting or origin of the spam and puts the linked domains in some sort of blacklist. I'm not sure that cuil on it's own is the most obvious choice for this, but as part of a strategy of using many 2nd tier popularity sites it makes some sense. Using only the most popularly linked sites (google, youtube, etc) makes it too easy to use whitelists, so the net needs to be cast a bit wider. A more likely reason for this spam is that linking to some legitimate domains makes it hard to automate a system that recognises some pattern in the formatting or origin of the spam and puts the linked domains in some sort of blacklist.

I’m not sure that cuil on it’s own is the most obvious choice for this, but as part of a strategy of using many 2nd tier popularity sites it makes some sense. Using only the most popularly linked sites (google, youtube, etc) makes it too easy to use whitelists, so the net needs to be cast a bit wider.

]]> By: Brad Kellett http://www.alhankeser.com/cuil-comment-spamming/comment-page-1/#comment-136 Brad Kellett Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:20:39 +0000 http://www.alhankeser.com/?p=215#comment-136 Hey Alhan - rest assured that it is most certainly not us (Cuil) doing the spam. We are totally against these practices, and will be doing a blog post shortly to clear everything up. Hey Alhan – rest assured that it is most certainly not us (Cuil) doing the spam. We are totally against these practices, and will be doing a blog post shortly to clear everything up.

]]> By: Mig http://www.alhankeser.com/cuil-comment-spamming/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Mig Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:29:08 +0000 http://www.alhankeser.com/?p=215#comment-128 Alhan, you should come back to see what Cuil had to say about all that. LOL. They should really hire someone to deal with their PR - since they launched they make one mistake after another. I see two possible scenarios: - the mysterious Cuil spam attacks will cease - if they don't, many other bloggers will blog about the spamming search engine. Alhan, you should come back to see what Cuil had to say about all that. LOL. They should really hire someone to deal with their PR – since they launched they make one mistake after another. I see two possible scenarios:

- the mysterious Cuil spam attacks will cease
- if they don’t, many other bloggers will blog about the spamming search engine.

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