Sping
Today, Sping is a topic of great relevance and interest to a wide spectrum of people. From experts in the field to those who are just getting familiar with the topic, Sping has managed to capture the attention of a diverse and growing audience. In order to delve deeper into its meaning and scope, in this article we will explore the different perspectives and contributions that Sping offers, with the aim of providing a complete and enriching analysis. Likewise, we will examine the implications and practical applications of Sping in various areas, highlighting its importance and impact on today's society.
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Sping is short for "spam ping", and is related to pings from blogs using trackbacks, called trackback spam. Pings are messages sent from blog and publishing tools to a centralized network service (a ping server) providing notification of newly published posts or content. Spings, or ping spam, are pings that are sent from spam blogs, or are sometimes multiple pings in a short interval from a legitimate source, often tens or hundreds per minute, due to misconfigured software, or a wish to make the content coming from the source appear fresh.
Spings, like spam blogs, are increasingly problematic for the blogging community. Estimates from Weblogs.com and Matt Mullenweg's Ping-o-Matic! service have put the sping rate—the percentage of pings that are sent from spam blogs—well above 50%. A study commissioned by Ebiquity Group and conducted by the University of Maryland in 2006 confirmed that these numbers are around 75%.[1] Since then, growth in sping has slowed, such that the portion of pings that are spam has dropped to 53%.[2]
The term was popularized by David Sifry from Technorati in his February 2006 State of the Blogosphere report,[3] but was coined initially in September 2005 by a French SEO blogger, Sébastien Billiard, in an article titled "Spam 2.0".[4]
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References
- ^ Pranam Kolari; Tim Finin & Anupam Joshi. "SVMs for the Blogosphere: Blog Identification and Splog Detection study" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-06-18.
- ^ Pranam Kolari. "Pings, Spings, Splogs and the Splogosphere: 2007 Updates". Retrieved 2007-06-19.
- ^ David Sifry (5 February 2006). "State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth". Retrieved 2022-08-30.
- ^ (in French) Original post: Sébastien Billard. "Spam 2.0". Retrieved 2007-06-18.
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