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<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<p>The term splog was popularized around mid August 2005 when it was used publicly by <a href="/facts/Mark_Cuban/qVs8reFb">Mark Cuban</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> It developed from multiple <a href="/facts/Linkblog/ok6Bq2gG">linkblogs</a> that were trying to influence search indexes and others trying to <a href="/facts/Google_bomb/9r67uTKu">Google bomb</a> every word in the dictionary.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Adversarial_information_retrieval/T1IUrDoY">Adversarial information retrieval</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/CAPTCHA/3sIyVjTk">CAPTCHA</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Blog_scraping/dRxMSWqB">Blog scraping</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Link_farm/Y1qWwWq9">Link farm</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Spam_in_blogs/RFM4blAm">Spam in blogs</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Spamdexing/V30auQyv">Spamdexing</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42577#whatwedo">Blogger: About Spam Blogs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/269/">SVMs for the Blogosphere: Blog Identification and Splog Detection</a></li>
<li><a href="http://news.cnet.com/Tempted+by+blogs%2C+spam+becomes+splog/2100-1032_3-5903409.html?tag=nl.caro">news.com.com: "Tempted by blogs, spam becomes 'splog'"</a></li>
<li><i><a href="/facts/The_Guardian/H84wwJYM">The Guardian</a></i>, 17 November 2005, <a href="http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,16376,1643774,00.html">"Cashing in on fake blogs"</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Mann, Charles C. (September 2006). "Spam + Blogs = Trouble". Wired. Archived from the original on October 27, 2006. Retrieved July 23, 2024. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061027011950/https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.09/splogs.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20061027011950/https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.09/splogs.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Zhu, Linhong; Sun, Aixin; Choi, Byron (2011-03-01). "Detecting spam blogs from blog search results". Information Processing & Management. 47 (2): 246–262. doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2010.03.006. ISSN 0306-4573. <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457310000269" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457310000269</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Yamamoto, Mike (2005-08-17). "Are 'splogs' ruining the blogs?". CNet News. Retrieved 2009-01-31. Cuban, who defines a splog as "any blog whose creator doesn't add any written value," writes: "Go to your favorite blog search engine and type in hair loss. Or you can try Cialis, or Discount Tickets?? You get the idea. Anything that has ever been spammed about is spammed in monstrous proportions in the blogosphere because its so easy to do." <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-5836356-7.html" target="_blank">http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-5836356-7.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Cuban's original post is archived here [1]. <a href="http://blogmaverick.com/2005/08/15/a-splog-here-a-splog-there-pretty-soon-it-ads-up-and-we/" target="_blank">http://blogmaverick.com/2005/08/15/a-splog-here-a-splog-there-pretty-soon-it-ads-up-and-we/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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