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A spammer’s playground

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Tom Lee writes at Manifest Destiny about his discovery that spammers were abusing a full-text RSS tool he developed. The self-described black-hat search engine optimization crowd — the folks who assemble sites peppered with ads that are designed to attract search engine traffic, aka “link farms” — had been using my script to steal other [...]