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Spam blogs polluting my Google Alerts

By jambrose | Lighter Side, Social Media

Google alerts are one of favourite ways to get good, weekly cross-section dumps on certain topics. Lately however, I have noticed that the top picks are usually spam blogs. These are also call splogs in Webtoopointohese. There are not always easy to spot at first, and they seem to take the form of “press releases”.