Google announced today that they (along with Yahoo, MSN, and a bunch of other search engines) that they are implementing a tactic to fight blog comment spam. One of the most commonly used ways comment spammers locate blogs to spam is using search engines. If the search engines can somehow nip that in the bud, then it should reduce comment spamming.
They're not claiming that this will be the end of comment spam, but I'm thrilled that the search engines are getting involved.
Read all about it here:
http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
It seems like every time I turn around lately, a PC user I know is asking about switching over to the Mac platform. Most of them say that they've finally had it with virii and spyware on their Windows box and are finally ready to make the switch.
This is strange because it wwasn't more than about a year ago that Apple spent lots of money on a marketing campaign aimed at "switchers". I would say that, for the most part, it wasn't terribly sucessful back then.
It's interesting how something malicious like spyware can seemingly have a greater effect than Apple's own marketing strategies.
I'll be curious to see what happens in the near futurem, as it is rumored that Apple will announce a low-cost desktop Mac tomorrow at MacWorld. Stay tuned, Mac switchers.
Wow, it's really been more than a month since I last wrote anything here. And I'm pretty embarrassed. So much so that I've made it one of my New Years resolutions to try to update here more often. And believe you me, I HATE New Years resolutions. Really.
So I took some of the time off during the holidays and converted my Movable Type over to use MySQL and upgraded to MT 3.14 and MT-Blacklist 2.04. Since last Saturday, it's blocked 655 comment spams and has been almost flawless. I'm really happy with it. Way to go, Six Apart!