Comments on: Curious and curiouser http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2004/07/10/curious-and-curiouser/ I am a mongrel - O ma! A gremlin... Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:34:17 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Yule Heibel http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2004/07/10/curious-and-curiouser/comment-page-1/#comment-1387 Yule Heibel Tue, 13 Jul 2004 01:44:17 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2004/07/10/curious-and-curiouser/#comment-1387 <a></a> Vernica, thanks! You are living proof that librarians are superior beings! While I had heard of comment spam, I had no idea there was such a thing as referer spam, which is what this clearly is. Thanks for giving me an answer that makes sense! I am soothed that the underlying explanation involves a market rationale, since your answer suggests that the spam is fueled by a strict logarithm which is supposed to pay off in google standing and/ or financial return, vs. having anything to do with a blog's content. I am, however, completely awed by the ways that people figure out how to turn a buck... I guess I have a gene deficiency in that area (unfortunately).Stu, as for your idea re. attracting more of this stuff, I dunno... But I suppose one should test it out, in the name of advancing knowledge etc etc... ;-)

Vernica, thanks! You are living proof that librarians are superior
beings! While I had heard of comment spam, I had no idea there was such
a thing as referer spam, which is what this clearly is. Thanks for
giving me an answer that makes sense! I am soothed that the
underlying explanation involves a market rationale, since your answer
suggests that the spam is fueled by a strict logarithm which is
supposed to pay off in google standing and/ or financial return, vs.
having anything to do with a blog’s content. I am, however, completely
awed by the ways that people figure out how to turn a buck… I guess I
have a gene deficiency in that area (unfortunately).Stu, as for
your idea re. attracting more of this stuff, I dunno… But I suppose
one should test it out, in the name of advancing knowledge etc etc…
;-)

]]> By: Stu Savory http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2004/07/10/curious-and-curiouser/comment-page-1/#comment-1386 Stu Savory Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:44:34 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2004/07/10/curious-and-curiouser/#comment-1386 <a></a> Yule, I'm going to try an experiment tomorrow by blogging an innocent photo with a potentially 'double entendre' title. Then I'll see who refers to it. I'll link to you too, so that we can see if the spammers cross feed from it. Stu

Yule,
I’m going to try an experiment tomorrow by blogging an innocent photo with a potentially ‘double entendre’ title. Then I’ll see who refers to it. I’ll link to you too, so that we can see if the spammers cross feed from it.

Stu

]]> By: vernica http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2004/07/10/curious-and-curiouser/comment-page-1/#comment-1385 vernica Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:40:12 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2004/07/10/curious-and-curiouser/#comment-1385 <a></a> Hi, Yule. I am glad to see that you are blogging again. I think the Harvard weblog server has been having problems. Several people have reported not getting comments forwarded to their e-mail accounts. The referer log spammers have been an ongoing problem; supposedly, they create false referrals to increase their page rank in search engines like Google and to get click-through traffic. If you check the logs for any of the weblogs on the Harvard server, you will see the same set of porn sites. My log is filled with that garbage, for example, and all language and content on my blog is strictly PG. Annoying and very frustrating.

Hi, Yule. I am glad to see that you are blogging again. I think the Harvard weblog server has been having problems. Several people have reported not getting comments forwarded to their e-mail accounts.

The referer log spammers have been an ongoing problem; supposedly, they create false referrals to increase their page rank in search engines like Google and to get click-through traffic. If you check the logs for any of the weblogs on the Harvard server, you will see the same set of porn sites. My log is filled with that garbage, for example, and all language and content on my blog is strictly PG. Annoying and very frustrating.

]]> By: Stu Savory http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2004/07/10/curious-and-curiouser/comment-page-1/#comment-1381 Stu Savory Sun, 11 Jul 2004 17:07:42 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2004/07/10/curious-and-curiouser/#comment-1381 <a></a> Nice to see you blogging again Yule :-) This effect MAY be due to chance, just because the words occur individually and separately on your website somewhere. I blogged about a similar occurence happening to my blog too. The permalink is http://home.egge.net/~savory//blog_jun_04.htm#20040630 Stu

Nice to see you blogging again Yule :-)

This effect MAY be due to chance, just because the words occur individually and separately on your website somewhere. I blogged about a similar occurence happening to my blog too. The permalink is
http://home.egge.net/~savory//blog_jun_04.htm#20040630

Stu

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