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Filtering Spam from Blog Analysis

Today Stephan Baker of Business Week mentioned a major problem that most people don’t realize can corrupt blog analysis. SPAM. Keeping spam out of analytics is one of the most important things we do for our clients. It’s the old maxim of garbage in garbage out. No content provider that we know of using everything from web scraping to RSS feed technologies can delete the majority of spam before they aggregate it and send it to analytics companies like Cymfony.

Instead of relying purely on search and filtering technologies, we rely on our own advanced content analysis technologies to eliminate spam BEFORE it gets into our analytics. I hope someone comes up with a clever way to eliminate the spam at the aggregation point because we’d rather spend our time developing great new analytics. But until that happens, we will continue fighting the battle at the engine level to ensure valid analytics for our clients.

Posted by Julie Woods on August 31, 2005 at 12:13 PM | Email this post Permalink

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SPAM is considered to be the virtual curse of the XXI century. Statistically, 70% of all email traffic is spam. Spammers get more and more sophisticated to get the email addresses of their victims: they create special spam bots, whose sole task is email harvesting, i.e. visiting sites and automatically collecting email address, which they find there.

We have recently developed a new product which is an anti-spam solution that prevents spam bots from email address harvesting on the website.

The technology is simple: the program replaces the original email with an image, thus preventing spam bots from harvesting your email.

You may find it here: http://linkdisguiser.com/

We would appreciate everyone who could try our product and write a feedback positive or negative.

Thank you.

Anton

Posted by: Anton | May 12, 2006 11:32:07 AM

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