Here are three quick items for your consideration: Is there a race to discover a solution for search spam, and will it be sold to the highest bidder?
Google is starting to show book cover images at the top of relevant searches. Check out my podcast interview with GoodROI aka Greg Niland. Pilgrim Partners: 3FN Marketing - our AdSense alternative pays publishers up to 80% of each click!

I am so sick of the news on this blog being, on average, a week old. Its my fault. I let these tabs build and build and build, and I don’t have time to write because I’m too busy amassing tabs, and when I finally do write something, it’s a week old. Dammit! I am so not doing this anymore. I hate missing news, but it is beyond stupid to have late and irellevant news because you don’t want to miss anything.
And because

I spend my days and nights here on the Gmail team fighting spam. From stock spam to empty spam to you-won-the-lottery spam, we expend a lot of energy—human and machine—on keeping our users’ inboxes clean. So when I saw the SEC’s announcement today about suspending trading on stocks that are frequent targets of spam scams, I was thrilled. Hit them where it hurts!Stock spam is a particularly nasty problem because it is particularly difficult to

Spammers found a new way to drive traffic to their spammy sites or affiliates: create tons of free BlogSpot blogs, put some content in the templates, create links between all the blogs and redirect the visitors to the spammy sites. Apparently, this scheme works and the redirect seems smart too.A search for “how students loans affect fico score”, BlogSpot redirect spam dominates the top 100 results (all the top 35 results are BlogSpot blogs).Here’s what you see when you click on the top result:..

Here’s a shocker: Wikipedia isn’t the only major site that uses “nofollow” on outgoing user-generated links; YouTube does it too. I looked at the source code on a typical YouTube video page and discovered 137 rel=”nofollow” tags!
The strange thing is, YouTube doesn’t reserve the nofollow for outgoing links, they even slap it on links to other parts of YouTube

Marshall Kirkpatrick’s post about the amount of spam getting thru his Gmail filter - 19 of 26 emails were spam - has a comment from blogging buddy, Jeremiah, that reminded me of an issue I’ve noticed with Akismet.
While Jeremiah’s finding Akismet to be reliable, I’m finding it to be less so

I’m always curious as to the junk that gets caught up in my comment filter. Today, I discovered an interesting attempt to get a comment published.
It appears that comment spammers are taking advantage of a script at Search Guild, that allows you to use their domain for redirects.
Here’s an example of how it works…
 http://www.searchguild.com/redir/o.php?out=http://marketingpilgrim.co m
Now imagine that but with a site suggesting I need some assistance in the growth of a certain appendage