Google's Blogger Hit By Huge Influx of Redirect Spam
Unsatisfied with simply using blogs as a tactic to trick the unsuspecting into clicking on Google ads, spammers have turned to a new technique to bait searchers - funneling Web traffic to people search sites.
In the last few weeks spammers have set up hundreds of Blogspot blogs that link to posts by popular bloggers. Like ordinary spam blogs, this new variant of splogs are designed to attract web searchers. However, they're much more nefarious.
Each blog posts automatically redirects the searcher to one of a handful of different people search engines that I don't care to link to. People-Search.com is among the most popular. You can spot these and others in dozens of Google Blog Search results for my site and others.
All of these new spam blogs are powered by Google's Blogger platform. However, they are getting indexed by all of the relevant search engines, including as of this writing Technorati. Google needs to put a stop to these immediately. It seems easily remedied if they can mine the blogs for the redirecting code.
