Salon: Invasion of the spambots

Jun08

Sam Williams of Salon writes about the emergence of intelligent agents crawling pages and inserting content in weblogs and wikis. "[B]ot writers and copiers find that there are enough newbie operators out there to serve as unwilling page-rank boosters."

Posted on June 8, 2004 at 11:51AM
Updated at 10:56PM
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By Niall Kennedy, a web technologist from
San Francisco, California, United States

Niall Kennedy is a web technologist in San Francisco, California in the United States. I am very interested in the world of... MORE »

Sam Williams of Salon writes about the emergence of intelligent agents crawling pages and inserting content in weblogs and wikis. "[B]ot writers and copiers find that there are enough newbie operators out there to serve as unwilling page-rank boosters."...